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Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink

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

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Times Brought

433

Decks Running

195

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

86 instances

2.3%

Library

44.2%

Battlefield

25.6%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Deadpool, Trading Card 38 decks
2 Aerid Konstrari 27 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 18 decks
4 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 14 decks
5 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 8 decks
6 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 6 decks
7 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron 4 decks
8 Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds 4 decks
9 Goro-Goro and Satoru 4 decks
10 The Master, Multiplied 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

435 brought · 180 players

Brought to game

435

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=41) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=261).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (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 +1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +9.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=55

16%

20%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 24% (9 / 55 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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.