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Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

· Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor · Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE)

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Times Brought

674

Decks Running

345

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor

Vigilance If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Permanents entering don't cause abilities of permanents your opponents control to trigger.

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Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) · Mythic · Illustrated by Martina Fačková

Final zone distribution

171 instances

1.8%

Library

43.3%

Battlefield

17.5%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Brago, King Eternal 21 decks
2 Omnath, Locus of Creation 14 decks
3 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 11 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 10 decks
5 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 10 decks
6 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 8 decks
7 Omnath, Locus of All 8 decks
8 The Wandering Minstrel 8 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 7 decks
10 The Necrobloom 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

678 brought · 316 players

Brought to game

678

Ever drawn

161

Reached battlefield

112

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=93) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=398).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=37).

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 +8.6pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +14.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=160

16%

19%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 44% (31 / 160 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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.