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Food Chain

· Enchantment · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

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Times Brought

455

Decks Running

224

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

115 instances

2.6%

Library

43.5%

Battlefield

20.0%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 38 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 24 decks
3 Flubs, the Fool 20 decks
4 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 13 decks
5 The Wise Mothman 8 decks
6 Ureni of the Unwritten 8 decks
7 Eshki, Temur's Roar 6 decks
8 Prossh, Skyraider of Kher 6 decks
9 Ashling, the Limitless 5 decks
10 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

455 brought · 194 players

Brought to game

455

Ever drawn

106

Reached battlefield

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.

≥ +5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=49) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=247).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=33).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.7pp to +19.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=67

15%

10%

12%

16%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 31% (7 / 67 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.