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Suture Priest

· Creature — Phyrexian Cleric · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

478

Decks Running

255

In Decks

1535

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Suture Priest

Creature — Phyrexian Cleric

Whenever another creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Common · Illustrated by Igor Kieryluk

Final zone distribution

135 instances

5.2%

Library

32.6%

Battlefield

35.6%

Graveyard

10.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 28 decks
2 Darien, King of Kjeldor 16 decks
3 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 15 decks
4 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 15 decks
5 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 13 decks
6 Hope Estheim 11 decks
7 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor 9 decks
8 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 8 decks
9 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 8 decks
10 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

481 brought · 230 players

Brought to game

481

Ever drawn

123

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=84) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=303).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=19) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.6pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=97

21%

13%

12%

11%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 26% (20 / 97 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

97 of 100 times cast 97%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.