Live Play Data

The Locust God

· Legendary Creature — God · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

839

Decks Running

276

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=137

20%

53%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 55% (25 / 137 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

839 brought · 340 players

Brought to game

839

Ever drawn

224

Reached battlefield

109

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=105) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=529).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=101).

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 +21.5pp; 95% confidence interval +12.3pp to +30.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

243 instances

6.2%

Library

28.8%

Battlefield

18.5%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, Stoic Father 41 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 36 decks
3 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 35 decks
4 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 32 decks
5 Yusri, Fortune's Flame 24 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 18 decks
7 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 15 decks
8 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 13 decks
9 Okaun, Eye of Chaos 12 decks
10 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 11 decks

Card text

The Locust God

Legendary Creature — God

Flying Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste. {2}

: Draw a card, then discard a card. When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lius Lasahido

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.