Live Play Data

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· Instant · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

809

Decks Running

435

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=104

10%

13%

57%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 5% (5 / 104 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

809 brought · 400 players

Brought to game

809

Ever drawn

157

Reached battlefield

104

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=91) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=534).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=52).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.1pp to +14.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

179 instances

4.5%

Library

1.1%

Battlefield

61.5%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atarka, World Render 31 decks
2 Ayula, Queen Among Bears 13 decks
3 Beorn the Fierce 10 decks
4 Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge 10 decks
5 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 10 decks
6 Shroofus Sproutsire 9 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 8 decks
8 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 8 decks
9 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 8 decks
10 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer 7 decks

Card text

Return to Nature

Instant

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Common · Illustrated by Mark Poole

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.