Live Play Data

Syphon Flesh

· Sorcery · Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

397

Decks Running

229

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=49

18%

57%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 20% (9 / 49 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

397 brought · 223 players

Brought to game

397

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.6pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=45) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=251).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 12% (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 -1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -12.6pp to +10.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

87 instances

1.1%

Library

55.2%

Graveyard

13.8%

Exile

29.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Syphon Flesh

Sorcery

Each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice. You create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each creature sacrificed this way.

Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Ironbrush

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.