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Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink

· Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · March of the Machine (MOM)

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Times Brought

139

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

Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery. {6}

: Create five tokens that are copies of another target creature you control. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.

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March of the Machine (MOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Aaron Miller

Final zone distribution

33 instances

3.0%

Library

39.4%

Battlefield

27.3%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Deadpool, Trading Card 18 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 12 decks
3 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 5 decks
4 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 4 decks
5 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 4 decks
6 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron 3 decks
7 Commander Mustard 2 decks
8 Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds 2 decks
9 Goro-Goro and Satoru 2 decks
10 Krenko, Mob Boss 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

141 brought · 69 players

Brought to game

141

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -17.6pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=15) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=70).

Observed gap -4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -17.6pp to +9.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

20%

15%

50%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 25% (4 / 20 cast on T4)

20 of 100 times cast 20%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.