Live Play Data

Nuka-Cola Vending Machine

· Artifact · Secret Lair Drop (SLD)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1179

Decks Running

542

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=203

13%

16%

13%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 19% (26 / 203 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

1179 brought · 465 players

Brought to game

1179

Ever drawn

272

Reached battlefield

203

Still on board at game end

166

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.

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=183) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=771).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=64).

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 +11.8pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +18.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

291 instances

1.0%

Library

57.0%

Battlefield

18.6%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 60 decks
2 Mr. House, President and CEO 35 decks
3 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 34 decks
4 Ygra, Eater of All 33 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 23 decks
6 Dr. Madison Li 23 decks
7 Sam, Loyal Attendant 19 decks
8 The Cabbage Merchant 16 decks
9 Rocco, Street Chef 14 decks
10 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 13 decks

Card text

Nuka-Cola Vending Machine

Artifact

: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with " {2}

, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Whenever you sacrifice a Food, create a tapped Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Secret Lair Drop (SLD) · Rare · Illustrated by Bartek Fedyczak

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.