Live Play Data

Food Chain

· Enchantment · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

581

Decks Running

234

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=110

25%

22%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 18% (10 / 110 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

582 brought · 205 players

Brought to game

582

Ever drawn

196

Reached battlefield

110

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ +15.0pp

Players who cast this card win 54% of the time (n=99) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=312).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=74).

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 +25.1pp; 95% confidence interval +15.0pp to +35.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

216 instances

4.2%

Library

38.0%

Battlefield

21.3%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 37 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 26 decks
3 Flubs, the Fool 17 decks
4 The Wise Mothman 11 decks
5 Ashling, the Limitless 9 decks
6 Eshki, Temur's Roar 8 decks
7 Helga, Skittish Seer 8 decks
8 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 7 decks
9 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 7 decks
10 Maelstrom Wanderer 7 decks

Card text

Food Chain

Enchantment

Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the exiled creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Mythic · Illustrated by Daarken

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.