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Live Play Data

Path of the Animist

{3} {G} · Sorcery · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
121
Decks Running
36
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
56%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23
0%
T1
13%
T2
17%
T3
17%
T4
22%
T5
26%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12
On curve 48% (4 / 23 cast on T4)

The "good card" funnel

121 brought · 35 players
Brought to game
121
Ever drawn
41
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
1
≥ -7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=22) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=63).

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 +15.0pp; 95% confidence interval -7.9pp to +37.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances
2.2%
Battlefield
44.4%
Graveyard
13.3%
Exile
40.0%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Path of the Animist card

Path of the Animist

{3} {G}
Sorcery
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Will of the Planeswalkers — Starting with you, each player votes for planeswalk or chaos. If planeswalk gets more votes, planeswalk. If chaos gets more votes or the vote is tied, chaos ensues.
March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Liiga Smilshkalne

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.