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Chasm Skulker

· Creature — Squid Horror · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

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Times Brought

911

Decks Running

454

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

Chasm Skulker

Creature — Squid Horror

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jack Wang

Final zone distribution

236 instances

1.7%

Library

33.1%

Battlefield

29.7%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

912 brought · 412 players

Brought to game

912

Ever drawn

225

Reached battlefield

138

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=107) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=491).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=67).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +8.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=138

10%

22%

14%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 34% (31 / 138 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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.