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Spine of Ish Sah

{7} · Artifact · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
Times Brought
456
Decks Running
252
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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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

Final zone distribution

100 instances
3.0%
Library
43.0%
Battlefield
10.0%
Graveyard
7.0%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

456 brought · 236 players
Brought to game
456
Ever drawn
96
Reached battlefield
52
Still on board at game end
43

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ +0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=40) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=243).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=25).

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 +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.2pp to +16.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=52
0%
T1
0%
T2
4%
T3
6%
T4
12%
T5
67%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 18
On curve 69% (13 / 52 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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.