Live Play Data

Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur // Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elder Dinosaur · March of the Machine (MOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1238

Decks Running

520

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=384

13%

17%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 75% (48 / 384 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1239 brought · 452 players

Brought to game

1239

Ever drawn

361

Reached battlefield

293

Still on board at game end

183

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ +16.5pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=269) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=733).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=62).

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 +22.8pp; 95% confidence interval +16.5pp to +29.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

390 instances

4.6%

Library

46.9%

Battlefield

21.0%

Graveyard

12.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 84 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 78 decks
3 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 36 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 34 decks
5 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 22 decks
6 Eshki, Temur's Roar 17 decks
7 Maelstrom Wanderer 16 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 12 decks
9 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 12 decks
10 Ruby, Daring Tracker 12 decks

Card text

Etali, Primal Conqueror

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

Trample When Etali enters, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. {9}

: Transform Etali. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Etali, Primal Sickness

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elder Dinosaur

Trample, indestructible Whenever Etali deals combat damage to a player, they get that many poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

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March of the Machine (MOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

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.