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Nuka-Cola Vending Machine

· Artifact · Secret Lair Drop (SLD)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

492

Decks Running

234

In Decks

1441

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

127 instances

0.8%

Library

56.7%

Battlefield

18.9%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 27 decks
2 Ygra, Eater of All 19 decks
3 Mr. House, President and CEO 18 decks
4 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 16 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 11 decks
6 Dr. Madison Li 9 decks
7 The Cabbage Merchant 9 decks
8 Sam, Loyal Attendant 8 decks
9 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 6 decks
10 Liberty Prime, Recharged 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

492 brought · 209 players

Brought to game

492

Ever drawn

115

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.

≥ +0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=88) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=321).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=24) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +21.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=90

19%

18%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 13% (7 / 90 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

90 of 100 times cast 90%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.