Live Play Data

Contagion Engine

· Artifact · Scars of Mirrodin (SOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

755

Decks Running

349

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=78

56%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 18

On curve 36% (15 / 78 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

755 brought · 326 players

Brought to game

755

Ever drawn

157

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ +0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=73) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=522).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=77).

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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.2pp to +19.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

179 instances

2.8%

Library

32.4%

Battlefield

20.7%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 76 decks
2 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 18 decks
3 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons 15 decks
4 Toxrill, the Corrosive 11 decks
5 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa 9 decks
6 Massacre Girl, Known Killer 9 decks
7 Kros, Defense Contractor 8 decks
8 Kilo, Apogee Mind 7 decks
9 The Wise Mothman 7 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 6 decks

Card text

Contagion Engine

Artifact

When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls. {4}

: Proliferate twice. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)

Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Daarken

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.