Live Play Data

Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor // Enchantment — Saga · March of the Machine (MOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

194

Decks Running

112

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=58

10%

17%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 29% (6 / 58 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

194 brought · 109 players

Brought to game

194

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ +13.5pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=38) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=117).

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 +28.8pp; 95% confidence interval +13.5pp to +44.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

54 instances

1.9%

Library

53.7%

Battlefield

14.8%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 14 decks
2 The Wandering Minstrel 10 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 8 decks
4 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 8 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 6 decks
6 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 5 decks
7 The Sentry, Golden Guardian 5 decks
8 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 4 decks
9 Omnath, Locus of All 4 decks
10 Tom Bombadil 4 decks

Card text

Elesh Norn

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor

Vigilance Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you or a permanent you control, that source's controller loses 2 life unless they pay {1}

, Sacrifice three other creatures: Exile Elesh Norn, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

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The Argent Etchings

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.) I — Incubate 2 five times, then transform all Incubator tokens you control. II — Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain double strike until end of turn. III — Destroy all other permanents except for artifacts, lands, and Phyrexians. Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

March of the Machine (MOM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.