Live Play Data

Surge of Salvation

· Instant · March of the Machine (MOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

270

Decks Running

150

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

43%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=29

17%

52%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 0% (0 / 29 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

271 brought · 138 players

Brought to game

271

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.7pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=25) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=170).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=34).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval -10.7pp to +28.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

76 instances

1.3%

Library

7.9%

Battlefield

38.2%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice 9 decks
2 Myrel, Shield of Argive 5 decks
3 Eriette of the Charmed Apple 4 decks
4 Heliod, Sun-Crowned 4 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 4 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 3 decks
7 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 3 decks
8 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind 3 decks
9 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 3 decks
10 Ms. Bumbleflower 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.