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Live Play Data
Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor // Enchantment — Saga
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March of the Machine (MOM)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
295
Decks Running
157
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
72%
Format
First-cast turn
n=95
1%
T1
5%
T2
8%
T3
16%
T4
17%
T5
41%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median
6
P25
4
· P75
7
· max
12
On curve
31%
(15 / 95 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
30%
The "good card" funnel
295 brought · 157 playersBrought to game
295
Ever drawn
82
Reached battlefield
59
Still on board at game end
38
Once cast, 64% 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.
≥ +10.7pp
Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=54) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=177).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=20).
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 +23.5pp; 95% confidence interval +10.7pp to +36.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
85 instances2.4%
Library
44.7%
Battlefield
17.6%
Graveyard
8.2%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
20 decks
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2
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
14 decks
-
3
The Wandering Minstrel
12 decks
-
4
Ekthi, Contaminator Priest
10 decks
-
5
Valko Indorian
9 decks
-
6
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
6 decks
-
7
Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
6 decks
-
8
Omnath, Locus of All
6 decks
-
9
Jodah, the Unifier
5 decks
-
10
The Sentry, Golden Guardian
5 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 
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, 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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, Sacrifice three other creatures: Exile Elesh Norn, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.3 / 5
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)
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Mythic
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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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.