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Surge of Salvation

· Instant · March of the Machine (MOM)

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Times Brought

246

Decks Running

126

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

52 instances

1.9%

Library

7.7%

Battlefield

36.5%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned 10 decks
2 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice 6 decks
3 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 5 decks
4 Eriette of the Charmed Apple 4 decks
5 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind 3 decks
6 Kaalia of the Vast 3 decks
7 Killian, Ink Duelist 3 decks
8 Mabel, Heir to Cragflame 3 decks
9 Otharri, Suns' Glory 3 decks
10 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

246 brought · 118 players

Brought to game

246

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -21.0pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=16) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=122).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=15).

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 -21.0pp to +4.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=26

15%

62%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 0% (0 / 26 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 16%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.