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Inga and Esika

{2} {G} {U} · Legendary Creature — Human God · March of the Machine (MOM)
Times Brought
113
Decks Running
50
In Decks
Decklist Inclusion
Format

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

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Inga and Esika card

Inga and Esika

{2} {G} {U}
Legendary Creature — Human God
Creatures you control have vigilance and "{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell." Whenever you cast a creature spell, if three or more mana from creatures was spent to cast it, draw a card.
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March of the Machine (MOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Wayne Reynolds

Final zone distribution

36 instances
61.1%
Battlefield
22.2%
Graveyard
16.7%
Hand

The "good card" funnel

113 brought · 55 players
Brought to game
113
Ever drawn
35
Reached battlefield
28
Still on board at game end
22

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.

≥ +12.2pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=26) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=61).

Observed gap +21.8pp; 95% confidence interval +12.2pp to +31.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28
0%
T1
11%
T2
4%
T3
29%
T4
11%
T5
46%
T6-9
0%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 9
On curve 43% (8 / 28 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 48%
28 of 100 times cast 28%

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Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.