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Spit Flame

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

654

Decks Running

341

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

115 instances

2.6%

Library

8.7%

Battlefield

50.4%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 127 decks
2 Atarka, World Render 60 decks
3 Ureni of the Unwritten 48 decks
4 Eshki, Temur's Roar 15 decks
5 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 14 decks
6 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 10 decks
7 The Ur-Dragon 10 decks
8 Ganax, Astral Hunter 6 decks
9 Tiamat 6 decks
10 Rivaz of the Claw 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

654 brought · 315 players

Brought to game

654

Ever drawn

107

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.3pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=46) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=374).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=27).

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 -0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -8.3pp to +7.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=68

13%

19%

37%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 19% (9 / 68 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

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.