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· Instant · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

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Times Brought

1256

Decks Running

572

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

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

Final zone distribution

231 instances

2.6%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

53.7%

Graveyard

3.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1256 brought · 507 players

Brought to game

1256

Ever drawn

218

Reached battlefield

127

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=106) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=754).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=61).

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 -2.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.6pp to +2.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=127

20%

54%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 4% (4 / 127 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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.