Live Play Data

Go for the Throat

· Instant · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3711

Decks Running

1755

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=582

12%

15%

49%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 3% (13 / 582 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

3711 brought · 1444 players

Brought to game

3711

Ever drawn

824

Reached battlefield

582

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=520) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=2340).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=211).

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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.5pp to +8.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

958 instances

3.3%

Library

2.2%

Battlefield

64.6%

Graveyard

9.8%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.