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Live Play Data

Pain Distributor

{2} {R} · Creature — Devil Citizen · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
281
Decks Running
159
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
60%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=32
0%
T1
3%
T2
19%
T3
16%
T4
19%
T5
34%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 11
On curve 22% (6 / 32 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

281 brought · 151 players
Brought to game
281
Ever drawn
53
Reached battlefield
32
Still on board at game end
18

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=29) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=188).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=18).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +28.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

60 instances
3.3%
Library
30.0%
Battlefield
33.3%
Graveyard
11.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Pain Distributor card

Pain Distributor

{2} {R}
Creature — Devil Citizen
Menace Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, they create a Treasure token. Whenever an artifact an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.
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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Olivier Bernard

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.