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Live Play Data

Uphill Battle

{2} {R} · Enchantment · Mercadian Masques (MMQ)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
138
Decks Running
59
Median Cast Turn
—
Drawn → Played
75%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

138 brought · 58 players
Brought to game
138
Ever drawn
24
Reached battlefield
18
Still on board at game end
13
≥ -23.1pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=16) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=98).

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 -0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -23.1pp to +21.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

27 instances
48.1%
Battlefield
29.6%
Graveyard
7.4%
Exile
14.8%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Uphill Battle card

Uphill Battle

{2} {R}
Enchantment
Creatures played by your opponents enter tapped.
Mercadian Masques (MMQ) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Pete Venters

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.