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Benthic Anomaly

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

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Times Brought

301

Decks Running

132

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

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

Final zone distribution

58 instances

3.4%

Library

25.9%

Battlefield

22.4%

Graveyard

1.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 82 decks
2 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 13 decks
3 Marvo, Deep Operative 9 decks
4 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 5 decks
5 Animar, Soul of Elements 4 decks
6 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 3 decks
7 Vela the Night-Clad 3 decks
8 Whtz, the Bibliophile 3 decks
9 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 2 decks
10 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

301 brought · 124 players

Brought to game

301

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -12.8pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=22) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=186).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=16).

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 -12.8pp to +9.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

15%

58%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 55% (5 / 33 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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.