Live Play Data

Food Chain

· Enchantment · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

984

Decks Running

369

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=177

10%

19%

22%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 14% (18 / 177 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

985 brought · 321 players

Brought to game

985

Ever drawn

303

Reached battlefield

177

Still on board at game end

138

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +19.0pp

Players who cast this card win 54% of the time (n=161) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=559).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=103).

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 +26.9pp; 95% confidence interval +19.0pp to +34.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

334 instances

3.6%

Library

41.3%

Battlefield

21.0%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 53 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 37 decks
3 Flubs, the Fool 29 decks
4 The Wise Mothman 15 decks
5 Ashling, the Limitless 14 decks
6 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 12 decks
7 Eshki, Temur's Roar 11 decks
8 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 11 decks
9 Ureni of the Unwritten 11 decks
10 Helga, Skittish Seer 10 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 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.