Live Play Data

Essence of Orthodoxy

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

149

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=13

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

149 brought · 75 players

Brought to game

149

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Final zone distribution

26 instances

15.4%

Battlefield

38.5%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

42.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 23 decks
2 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 17 decks
3 Valko Indorian 7 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 6 decks
5 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 6 decks
6 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 4 decks
7 Omnath, Locus of All 4 decks
8 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 2 decks
9 Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold 2 decks
10 Vishgraz, the Doomhive 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

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

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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.