Live Play Data

Surge of Salvation

· Instant · March of the Machine (MOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

478

Decks Running

233

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

48%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=54

19%

54%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 0% (0 / 54 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

479 brought · 215 players

Brought to game

479

Ever drawn

113

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=47) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=305).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=51).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -10.8pp to +16.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

131 instances

1.5%

Library

9.9%

Battlefield

38.2%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice 12 decks
2 Heliod, Sun-Crowned 9 decks
3 Eriette of the Charmed Apple 8 decks
4 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 7 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 6 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 5 decks
7 Giada, Font of Hope 5 decks
8 Myrel, Shield of Argive 5 decks
9 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 4 decks
10 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar 3 decks

Card text

Surge of Salvation

Instant

You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. Prevent all damage that black and/or red sources would deal to creatures you control this turn.

March of the Machine (MOM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Dominik Mayer

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.