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Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor // Enchantment — Saga · March of the Machine (MOM)
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Times Brought
305
Decks Running
138
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.

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Jin-Gitaxias

{3} {U} {U}
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
Ward {2} Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, draw a card. {3}{U}: Exile Jin-Gitaxias, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you have seven or more cards in hand.
5 / 5

The Great Synthesis

Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.) I — Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size for as long as you control this Saga. II — Return all non-Phyrexian creatures to their owners' hands. III — You may cast any number of spells from your hand without paying their mana costs. Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
March of the Machine (MOM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Ekaterina Burmak

Final zone distribution

87 instances
3.4%
Library
42.5%
Battlefield
13.8%
Graveyard
9.2%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

305 brought · 137 players
Brought to game
305
Ever drawn
77
Reached battlefield
43
Still on board at game end
37

Once cast, 86% 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.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=33) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=162).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=25).

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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +15.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=56
0%
T1
2%
T2
4%
T3
14%
T4
11%
T5
55%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14
On curve 30% (6 / 56 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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.