Live Play Data

City on Fire

· Enchantment · March of the Machine (MOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

775

Decks Running

399

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=78

10%

64%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 74% (16 / 78 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

775 brought · 337 players

Brought to game

775

Ever drawn

146

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ +7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=70) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=541).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=59).

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 +18.3pp; 95% confidence interval +7.1pp to +29.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

166 instances

4.2%

Library

36.1%

Battlefield

23.5%

Graveyard

2.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 26 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 24 decks
3 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 16 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 16 decks
5 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 15 decks
6 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 14 decks
7 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 13 decks
8 Norin the Wary 10 decks
9 Wildsear, Scouring Maw 9 decks
10 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 8 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.