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Abzan Battle Priest

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

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Times Brought

204

Decks Running

106

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

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

Final zone distribution

40 instances

2.5%

Library

30.0%

Battlefield

22.5%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn 10 decks
2 Shalai and Hallar 10 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 9 decks
4 Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener 6 decks
5 Sonic the Hedgehog 6 decks
6 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 5 decks
7 Hamza, Guardian of Arashin 4 decks
8 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 4 decks
9 Whtz, the Bibliophile 4 decks
10 Denzilore Fatehold 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

204 brought · 96 players

Brought to game

204

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.1pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=17) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=112).

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 -14.1pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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.