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Sheoldred // The True Scriptures

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor // Enchantment — Saga · March of the Machine (MOM)

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Times Brought

229

Decks Running

122

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

Sheoldred

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor

Menace When Sheoldred enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker of their choice. {4}

: Exile Sheoldred, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

4 / 5

The True Scriptures

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.) I — For each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls. II — Each opponent discards three cards, then mills three cards. III — Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

March of the Machine (MOM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

Final zone distribution

45 instances

37.8%

Battlefield

22.2%

Graveyard

13.3%

Exile

26.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 9 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 7 decks
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 5 decks
4 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 4 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 4 decks
6 Tom Bombadil 4 decks
7 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 3 decks
8 Captain N'ghathrod 3 decks
9 Dihada, Binder of Wills 3 decks
10 Omnath, Locus of All 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

229 brought · 117 players

Brought to game

229

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=24) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=145).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -6.6pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

16%

25%

38%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 50% (8 / 32 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

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.