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· Sorcery · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

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Times Brought

299

Decks Running

157

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

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

Final zone distribution

55 instances

1.8%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

70.9%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 14 decks
2 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 12 decks
3 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 10 decks
4 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 8 decks
5 Dr. Eggman 7 decks
6 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 7 decks
7 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation 6 decks
8 Urza, Lord High Artificer 6 decks
9 Breya, Etherium Shaper 5 decks
10 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

299 brought · 141 players

Brought to game

299

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=28) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=195).

Observed gap +1.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.0pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

18%

27%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 55% (9 / 33 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

33 of 100 times cast 33%

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.