Live Play Data

Spine of Ish Sah

· Artifact · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

471

Decks Running

236

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=74

15%

58%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 61% (13 / 74 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

471 brought · 219 players

Brought to game

471

Ever drawn

122

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ +2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=68) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=308).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=44).

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 +13.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.5pp to +24.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

128 instances

4.7%

Library

40.6%

Battlefield

14.8%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 62 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 23 decks
3 Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force 14 decks
4 Mishra, Eminent One 10 decks
5 Daretti, Scrap Savant 9 decks
6 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 6 decks
7 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 6 decks
8 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 6 decks
9 Imskir Iron-Eater 5 decks
10 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 5 decks

Card text

Spine of Ish Sah

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