Live Play Data

Benthic Anomaly

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

238

Decks Running

122

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=30

60%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 50% (2 / 30 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

238 brought · 120 players

Brought to game

238

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.

≥ +5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=27) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=158).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=23).

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 +23.8pp; 95% confidence interval +5.7pp to +42.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

57 instances

3.5%

Library

36.8%

Battlefield

24.6%

Graveyard

3.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 64 decks
2 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 12 decks
3 Marvo, Deep Operative 9 decks
4 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 6 decks
5 Gogo, Master of Mimicry 4 decks
6 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty 3 decks
7 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 3 decks
8 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 3 decks
9 Animar, Soul of Elements 2 decks
10 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 2 decks

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.

7 / 8

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

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.