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Altar of the Brood
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Artifact
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Khans of Tarkir (KTK)
Times Brought
277
Decks Running
125
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
Card text
Altar of the Brood
Artifact
Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.
Khans of Tarkir (KTK)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Erica Yang
Final zone distribution
59 instances61.0%
Battlefield
22.0%
Graveyard
5.1%
Exile
11.9%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
The Wise Mothman
16 decks
-
2
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
7 decks
-
3
Captain N'ghathrod
6 decks
-
4
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
5 decks
-
5
Brago, King Eternal
4 decks
-
6
Norin the Wary
4 decks
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7
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
3 decks
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8
Krenko, Mob Boss
3 decks
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9
Marrow-Gnawer
3 decks
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10
Phenax, God of Deception
3 decks
The "good card" funnel
279 brought · 116 playersBrought to game
279
Ever drawn
50
Reached battlefield
43
Still on board at game end
36
Once cast, 84% 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.
≥ -18.2pp
Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=37) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=163).
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 -9.8pp; 95% confidence interval -18.2pp to -1.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=43
28%
T1
9%
T2
12%
T3
9%
T4
7%
T5
30%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median
4
P25
1
· P75
7
· max
15
On curve
28%
(12 / 43 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
74%
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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.