Live Play Data

Acclaimed Contender

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

274

Decks Running

117

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=39

18%

15%

13%

33%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 21% (7 / 39 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

274 brought · 112 players

Brought to game

274

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -16.6pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=36) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=173).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=20).

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 -1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -16.6pp to +13.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

66 instances

4.5%

Library

34.8%

Battlefield

31.8%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 68 decks
2 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 21 decks
3 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light 6 decks
4 Arthur, Marigold Knight 2 decks
5 Aryel, Knight of Windgrace 2 decks
6 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 2 decks
7 Adelbert Steiner 1 decks
8 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks
9 Balan, Wandering Knight 1 decks
10 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 1 decks

Card text

Acclaimed Contender

Creature — Human Knight

When this creature enters, if you control another Knight, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a Knight, Aura, Equipment, or legendary artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by David Gaillet

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.