Live Play Data

Spit Flame

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

747

Decks Running

362

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=75

15%

20%

49%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 11% (3 / 75 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

750 brought · 339 players

Brought to game

750

Ever drawn

125

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.9pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=65) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=521).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=43).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap -3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -12.9pp to +5.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

136 instances

3.7%

Library

0.7%

Battlefield

58.1%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Spit Flame

Instant

Spit Flame deals 4 damage to target creature. Whenever a Dragon you control enters, you may pay {R}

. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.