Live Play Data

Food Chain

· Enchantment · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

285

Decks Running

138

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50

10%

26%

20%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 14% (2 / 50 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

285 brought · 120 players

Brought to game

285

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ +4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 52% of the time (n=46) , vs 34% when it never left the library (n=158).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=39).

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 +18.3pp; 95% confidence interval +4.0pp to +32.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

105 instances

6.7%

Library

31.4%

Battlefield

23.8%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 22 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 15 decks
3 Flubs, the Fool 10 decks
4 Helga, Skittish Seer 6 decks
5 The Wise Mothman 6 decks
6 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 5 decks
7 Eshki, Temur's Roar 5 decks
8 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 4 decks
9 Ms. Bumbleflower 4 decks
10 Prossh, Skyraider of Kher 4 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.