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The Locust God

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

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Times Brought

188

Decks Running

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

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

Final zone distribution

71 instances

7.0%

Library

42.3%

Battlefield

12.7%

Graveyard

2.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, Stoic Father 23 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 12 decks
3 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 12 decks
4 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 9 decks
5 The Locust God 7 decks
6 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 3 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
8 Gavi, Nest Warden 3 decks
9 Kasla, the Broken Halo 3 decks
10 Magnus the Red 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

188 brought · 100 players

Brought to game

188

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -8.3pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=19) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=107).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=25) — 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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.3pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

63%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 33% (4 / 27 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

27 of 100 times cast 27%

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.