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Live Play Data

Reckless Handling

{1} {R} · Sorcery · March of the Machine: The Aftermath (MAT)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
712
Decks Running
307
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
68%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=109
1%
T1
15%
T2
16%
T3
15%
T4
8%
T5
36%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17
On curve 16% (16 / 109 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

712 brought · 284 players
Brought to game
712
Ever drawn
161
Reached battlefield
109
Still on board at game end
4
≥ -0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=95) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=438).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=39).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.6pp to +18.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

179 instances
2.8%
Library
2.2%
Battlefield
70.4%
Graveyard
6.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Reckless Handling card

Reckless Handling

{1} {R}
Sorcery
Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, shuffle, then discard a card at random. If an artifact card was discarded this way, Reckless Handling deals 2 damage to each opponent.
March of the Machine: The Aftermath (MAT) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Miguel Mercado

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.