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Price of Progress

· Instant · Eternal Masters (EMA)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

166

Decks Running

In Decks

615

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Price of Progress

Instant

Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.

Eternal Masters (EMA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Yohann Schepacz

Final zone distribution

36 instances

11.1%

Battlefield

44.4%

Graveyard

13.9%

Exile

30.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 8 decks
2 Neheb, the Eternal 6 decks
3 Kratos, God of War 5 decks
4 Lightning, Army of One 4 decks
5 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 4 decks
6 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus 4 decks
7 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 4 decks
8 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 4 decks
9 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 3 decks
10 Daredevil, Fearless Fighter 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

166 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

166

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=19) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=114).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 7% (n=15) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +14.0pp; 95% confidence interval -9.2pp to +37.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

19 of 100 times cast 19%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.