Live Play Data

Excise the Imperfect

· Instant · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

219

Decks Running

114

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

63%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 5% (2 / 40 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

The "good card" funnel

219 brought · 108 players

Brought to game

219

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=37) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=136).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=18).

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 +19.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +37.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

71 instances

5.6%

Library

7.0%

Battlefield

52.1%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Queen Marchesa 22 decks
2 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 21 decks
3 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 14 decks
4 Giada, Font of Hope 8 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 6 decks
6 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 4 decks
7 Darien, King of Kjeldor 3 decks
8 Athreos, God of Passage 2 decks
9 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 2 decks
10 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 2 decks

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

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.