Live Play Data

Machine God's Effigy

· Artifact · The Brothers' War Commander (BRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

423

Decks Running

170

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

11%

21%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 21% (5 / 53 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

423 brought · 160 players

Brought to game

423

Ever drawn

107

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -9.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=48) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=253).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=51).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -9.6pp to +17.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

132 instances

7.6%

Library

18.9%

Battlefield

40.2%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Machine God's Effigy

Artifact

You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact and it has " {T}

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The Brothers' War Commander (BRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Martin de Diego Sádaba

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.