Live Play Data

Cosmic Hunger

· Instant · March of the Machine (MOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

178

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

11%

49%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 0% (0 / 35 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

178 brought · 83 players

Brought to game

178

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=31) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=111).

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 +8.4pp; 95% confidence interval -8.0pp to +24.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

54 instances

1.9%

Library

64.8%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

25.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Cosmic Hunger

Instant

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature, planeswalker, or battle.

March of the Machine (MOM) · Common · Illustrated by Konstantin Porubov

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.