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Invasion of Theros // Ephara, Ever-Sheltering

Battle — Siege // Legendary Enchantment Creature — God · March of the Machine (MOM)

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Times Brought

106

Decks Running

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

Invasion of Theros

Battle — Siege

(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.) When this Siege enters, search your library for an Aura, God, or Demigod card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Defense 4

Ephara, Ever-Sheltering

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Ephara has lifelink and indestructible as long as you control at least three other enchantments. Whenever another enchantment you control enters, draw a card.

4 / 4

March of the Machine (MOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Johan Grenier

Final zone distribution

35 instances

2.9%

Library

45.7%

Battlefield

14.3%

Graveyard

37.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, Stoic Father 14 decks
2 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 10 decks
3 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 4 decks
4 Tom Bombadil 4 decks
5 Zur, Eternal Schemer 3 decks
6 Zur the Enchanter 3 decks
7 Eriette, the Beguiler 2 decks
8 Estrid, the Masked 2 decks
9 Shiko and Narset, Unified 2 decks
10 Whtz, the Bibliophile 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

106 brought · 57 players

Brought to game

106

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=18) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=60).

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 -2.4pp to +22.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

20%

10%

40%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 25% (4 / 20 cast on T3)

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.