Live Play Data

Crawling Infestation

· Enchantment · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

189

Decks Running

100

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

21%

25%

33%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 8% (2 / 24 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

189 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

189

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=22) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=106).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=15).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +30.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

70 instances

5.7%

Library

25.7%

Battlefield

40.0%

Graveyard

11.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord 14 decks
2 The Mycotyrant 13 decks
3 Grist, the Hunger Tide 11 decks
4 Grolnok, the Omnivore 6 decks
5 Aatchik, Emerald Radian 3 decks
6 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger 3 decks
7 Disa the Restless 3 decks
8 Exdeath, Void Warlock // Neo Exdeath, Dimension's End 3 decks
9 Nethroi, Apex of Death 3 decks
10 The Swarmweaver 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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.