Live Play Data

Thoughtcast

· Sorcery · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

945

Decks Running

439

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=159

13%

23%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 42% (36 / 159 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

945 brought · 398 players

Brought to game

945

Ever drawn

228

Reached battlefield

159

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=146) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=618).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=64).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

243 instances

2.5%

Library

1.2%

Battlefield

71.6%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dr. Eggman 30 decks
2 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 27 decks
3 Sai, Master Thopterist 27 decks
4 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 25 decks
5 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 24 decks
6 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 20 decks
7 Urza, Lord High Artificer 15 decks
8 Golbez, Crystal Collector 13 decks
9 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 13 decks
10 Breya, Etherium Shaper 12 decks

Card text

Thoughtcast

Sorcery

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1}

less to cast for each artifact you control.) Draw two cards.

March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Common · Illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.