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Bloodline Pretender

· Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

302

Decks Running

171

In Decks

1125

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Bloodline Pretender

Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As this creature enters, choose a creature type. Whenever another creature you control of the chosen type enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

Final zone distribution

76 instances

1.3%

Library

34.2%

Battlefield

30.3%

Graveyard

13.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

302 brought · 162 players

Brought to game

302

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=51) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=192).

Observed gap +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -4.8pp to +19.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=52

17%

12%

10%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 25% (9 / 52 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

52 of 100 times cast 52%

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.