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Excise the Imperfect

· Instant · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

274

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Excise the Imperfect

Instant

Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller incubates X, where X is its mana value. (They create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and " {2}

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

March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Denis Zhbankov

Final zone distribution

35 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Queen Marchesa 10 decks
2 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 9 decks
3 Giada, Font of Hope 6 decks
4 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 5 decks
5 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 2 decks
6 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 2 decks
7 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 2 decks
8 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 decks
9 Yume, Chronicler of Valor 2 decks
10 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

95 brought · 55 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=18) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=54).

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 +21.3pp; 95% confidence interval -5.3pp to +47.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

55%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 15

On curve 5% (1 / 20 cast on T3)

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.