Live Play Data

Darksteel Splicer

· Creature — Phyrexian Artificer · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

217

Decks Running

108

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=30

10%

57%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 70% (6 / 30 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

217 brought · 102 players

Brought to game

217

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=28) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=156).

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 -8.2pp to +25.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

48 instances

27.1%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

14.6%

Exile

27.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 28 decks
2 Brenard, Ginger Sculptor 27 decks
3 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 15 decks
4 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 12 decks
5 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 4 decks
6 Omnath, Locus of All 3 decks
7 Delney, Streetwise Lookout 2 decks
8 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 2 decks
9 Malcator, Purity Overseer 2 decks
10 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death 1 decks

Card text

Darksteel Splicer

Creature — Phyrexian Artificer

Whenever this creature or another nontoken Phyrexian you control enters, create X 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature tokens, where X is the number of opponents you have. Golems you control have indestructible.

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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Steven Belledin

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.