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Training Grounds

{U} · Enchantment · March of the Machine: The Aftermath (MAT)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Buy on TCGplayer
Times Brought
463
Decks Running
194
In Decks
1458
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Training Grounds card

Training Grounds

{U}
Enchantment
Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
March of the Machine: The Aftermath (MAT) · Rare · Illustrated by A. M. Sartor

Final zone distribution

138 instances
2.2%
Library
59.4%
Battlefield
17.4%
Graveyard
2.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

463 brought · 202 players
Brought to game
463
Ever drawn
124
Reached battlefield
96
Still on board at game end
82

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=90) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=287).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=24) — 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 +10.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +20.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=96
19%
T1
10%
T2
9%
T3
8%
T4
13%
T5
32%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16
On curve 19% (18 / 96 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 59%
96 of 100 times cast 96%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.