Live Play Data

Abzan Battle Priest

· Creature — Human Cleric · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

277

Decks Running

147

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=39

10%

21%

13%

44%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 33% (8 / 39 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

277 brought · 139 players

Brought to game

277

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -12.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=37) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=193).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=17).

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 +1.7pp; 95% confidence interval -12.8pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

64 instances

1.6%

Library

34.4%

Battlefield

32.8%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 15 decks
2 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn 12 decks
3 Shalai and Hallar 11 decks
4 Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener 8 decks
5 Giada, Font of Hope 8 decks
6 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 8 decks
7 Minwu, White Mage 6 decks
8 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 5 decks
9 Hamza, Guardian of Arashin 5 decks
10 Sonic the Hedgehog 5 decks

Card text

Abzan Battle Priest

Creature — Human Cleric

Outlast

(

: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has lifelink.

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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Uncommon · 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.