Live Play Data

Crawling Infestation

· Enchantment · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

236

Decks Running

124

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

23%

14%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 9% (3 / 35 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

236 brought · 121 players

Brought to game

236

Ever drawn

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.

≥ -14.0pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=34) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=135).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=19).

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 +1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -14.0pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

90 instances

5.6%

Library

28.9%

Battlefield

37.8%

Graveyard

13.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Grist, the Hunger Tide 16 decks
2 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord 15 decks
3 The Mycotyrant 13 decks
4 Grolnok, the Omnivore 11 decks
5 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger 5 decks
6 Yuna, Hope of Spira 4 decks
7 Aatchik, Emerald Radian 3 decks
8 Disa the Restless 3 decks
9 Exdeath, Void Warlock // Neo Exdeath, Dimension's End 3 decks
10 Kathril, Aspect Warper 3 decks

Card text

Crawling Infestation

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere during your turn, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Common · Illustrated by Khurrum

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.