Live Play Data

Go for the Throat

· Instant · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1725

Decks Running

870

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=270

13%

12%

49%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 3% (6 / 270 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

1725 brought · 741 players

Brought to game

1725

Ever drawn

379

Reached battlefield

270

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=242) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=1101).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=94).

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 +6.4pp; 95% confidence interval +0.9pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

448 instances

3.3%

Library

2.0%

Battlefield

66.5%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Go for the Throat

Instant

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Kristina Carroll

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.