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Benthic Anomaly

· Creature — Eldrazi Serpent · Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

143

Decks Running

In Decks

538

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Benthic Anomaly

Creature — Eldrazi Serpent

Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell, for each opponent, choose a creature that player controls. Create a token that's a copy of one of those creatures, except its power is equal to the total power of those creatures, its toughness is equal to the total toughness of those creatures, and it's a colorless Eldrazi creature.

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Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C) · Rare · Illustrated by Nino Is

Final zone distribution

39 instances

2.6%

Library

35.9%

Battlefield

23.1%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

143 brought · 69 players

Brought to game

143

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ +7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 53% of the time (n=18) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=91).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 54% (n=17) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +29.7pp; 95% confidence interval +7.7pp to +51.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

65%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 45% (2 / 20 cast on T7)

20 of 100 times cast 20%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.