Live Play Data

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· Instant · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1590

Decks Running

760

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=199

11%

13%

55%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 4% (7 / 199 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

1590 brought · 682 players

Brought to game

1590

Ever drawn

310

Reached battlefield

199

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=176) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1054).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=103).

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 +0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -5.8pp to +6.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

350 instances

4.6%

Library

2.0%

Battlefield

58.3%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atarka, World Render 61 decks
2 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 21 decks
3 Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge 18 decks
4 Ayula, Queen Among Bears 16 decks
5 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 15 decks
6 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 15 decks
7 Beorn the Fierce 14 decks
8 Shroofus Sproutsire 14 decks
9 Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener 11 decks
10 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 11 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 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.