Live Play Data

Essence of Orthodoxy

· Creature — Phyrexian · March of the Machine (MOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

210

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

18%

43%

T6-9

29%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 29% (5 / 28 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

210 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

210

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.

≥ -16.8pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=27) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=137).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=17).

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 -1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -16.8pp to +13.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

51 instances

23.5%

Battlefield

37.3%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

33.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 32 decks
2 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 24 decks
3 Valko Indorian 11 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 7 decks
5 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 7 decks
6 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 6 decks
7 Omnath, Locus of All 4 decks
8 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 2 decks
9 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 2 decks
10 Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold 2 decks

Card text

Essence of Orthodoxy

Creature — Phyrexian

Flying Whenever this creature or another Phyrexian you control enters, incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and " {2}

: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

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March of the Machine (MOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Oriana Menendez

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.