Live Play Data

Training Grounds

· Enchantment · March of the Machine: The Aftermath (MAT)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1108

Decks Running

433

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=227

18%

10%

12%

15%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 18% (41 / 227 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 57%

The "good card" funnel

1108 brought · 425 players

Brought to game

1108

Ever drawn

296

Reached battlefield

227

Still on board at game end

187

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=210) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=672).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=61).

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 +11.1pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

329 instances

2.1%

Library

56.8%

Battlefield

17.0%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kenrith, the Returned King 37 decks
2 Sliver Overlord 33 decks
3 Kratos, Stoic Father 28 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 24 decks
5 Marneus Calgar 21 decks
6 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 18 decks
7 Super-Skrull 17 decks
8 Thrasios, Triton Hero 16 decks
9 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 15 decks
10 The Astonishing Ant-Man 15 decks

Card text

Training Grounds

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

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.