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Reckless Handling

· Sorcery · March of the Machine: The Aftermath (MAT)

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Times Brought

324

Decks Running

171

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Reckless Handling

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

Final zone distribution

64 instances

1.6%

Battlefield

73.4%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

14.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 23 decks
2 Norin the Wary 12 decks
3 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 8 decks
4 Yusri, Fortune's Flame 8 decks
5 Zirda, the Dawnwaker 7 decks
6 Chira, All In 6 decks
7 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 6 decks
8 Captain Rex Nebula 5 decks
9 Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force 5 decks
10 Imskir Iron-Eater 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

324 brought · 165 players

Brought to game

324

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -16.7pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=38) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=184).

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 -8.7pp; 95% confidence interval -16.7pp to -0.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=45

20%

11%

13%

29%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 22% (9 / 45 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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.