Live Play Data

Pillar of Origins

· Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

286

Decks Running

152

Median Cast Turn

4.5

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=54

19%

15%

33%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 20% (10 / 54 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

286 brought · 148 players

Brought to game

286

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ -7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=51) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=170).

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 +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -7.6pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

74 instances

4.1%

Library

60.8%

Battlefield

18.9%

Graveyard

2.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The First Sliver 51 decks
2 Sliver Gravemother 21 decks
3 Sliver Overlord 12 decks
4 Sliver Hivelord 7 decks
5 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 5 decks
6 Morophon, the Boundless 4 decks
7 Reaper King 4 decks
8 Tiamat 4 decks
9 Seluma, Light of Aysen 3 decks
10 Valko Indorian 3 decks

Card text

Pillar of Origins

Artifact

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. {T}

: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Dimitar Marinski

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.