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Inga and Esika

{2} {G} {U} · Legendary Creature — Human God · March of the Machine (MOM)
Times Brought
363
Decks Running
176
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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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.
4 / 4
March of the Machine (MOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Wayne Reynolds

Final zone distribution

85 instances
1.2%
Library
63.5%
Battlefield
15.3%
Graveyard
1.2%
Exile

The "good card" funnel

363 brought · 165 players
Brought to game
363
Ever drawn
84
Reached battlefield
66
Still on board at game end
54

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ +2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=52) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=204).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=15).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval +2.9pp to +17.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=69
0%
T1
6%
T2
9%
T3
22%
T4
10%
T5
49%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11
On curve 36% (15 / 69 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

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.