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The Phasing of Zhalfir

{2} {U} {U} · Enchantment — Saga · Dominaria United (DMU)
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Decklist Inclusion
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Times Brought
69
Decks Running
39
In Decks
171
Decklist Inclusion
0%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
The Phasing of Zhalfir card

The Phasing of Zhalfir

{2} {U} {U}
Enchantment — Saga
Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Another target nonland permanent phases out. It can't phase in for as long as you control this Saga. III — Destroy all creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller creates a 2/2 black Phyrexian creature token.
Dominaria United (DMU) · Rare · Illustrated by L.A. Draws

Final zone distribution

27 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

69 brought · 38 players
Brought to game
69
Ever drawn
26
Reached battlefield
20
Still on board at game end
7

Once cast, 35% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -17.6pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=19) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=40).

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 +-0.0pp; 95% confidence interval -17.6pp to +17.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20
0%
T1
0%
T2
5%
T3
5%
T4
15%
T5
60%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14
On curve 10% (1 / 20 cast on T4)

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.