Live Play Data

City on Fire

· Enchantment · March of the Machine (MOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1996

Decks Running

829

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=198

13%

64%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 81% (30 / 198 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

1996 brought · 694 players

Brought to game

1996

Ever drawn

382

Reached battlefield

198

Still on board at game end

144

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ +6.9pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=182) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1389).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=161).

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 +14.0pp; 95% confidence interval +6.9pp to +21.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

426 instances

4.7%

Library

33.8%

Battlefield

21.4%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 47 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 44 decks
3 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 41 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 30 decks
5 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 25 decks
6 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 25 decks
7 Norin the Wary 24 decks
8 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 23 decks
9 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 21 decks
10 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus 15 decks

Card text

City on Fire

Enchantment

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1}

or one mana of that creature's color.) If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage instead.

March of the Machine (MOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Jake Murray

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.