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Live Play Data

Spine of Ish Sah

{7} · Artifact · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
778
Decks Running
368
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
60%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=117
0%
T1
1%
T2
2%
T3
3%
T4
16%
T5
57%
T6-9
21%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15
On curve 58% (20 / 117 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

778 brought · 339 players
Brought to game
778
Ever drawn
195
Reached battlefield
117
Still on board at game end
84

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ +2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=106) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=505).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=69).

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 +11.4pp; 95% confidence interval +2.6pp to +20.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

208 instances
4.8%
Library
40.4%
Battlefield
16.8%
Graveyard
6.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Spine of Ish Sah card

Spine of Ish Sah

{7}
Artifact
When this artifact enters, destroy target permanent. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.
March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.