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Academy Manufactor

· Artifact Creature — Assembly-Worker · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

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Times Brought

2737

Decks Running

1351

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Academy Manufactor

Artifact Creature — Assembly-Worker

If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.

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Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Campbell White

Final zone distribution

608 instances

1.5%

Library

49.5%

Battlefield

26.0%

Graveyard

3.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 98 decks
2 Mr. House, President and CEO 89 decks
3 Hazel of the Rootbloom 85 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 52 decks
5 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 38 decks
6 Ygra, Eater of All 36 decks
7 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 35 decks
8 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 35 decks
9 Smaug the Magnificent 33 decks
10 Olivia, Opulent Outlaw 29 decks

The "good card" funnel

2737 brought · 1092 players

Brought to game

2737

Ever drawn

576

Reached battlefield

452

Still on board at game end

301

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=378) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1605).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=90).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.2pp to +6.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=452

12%

16%

14%

15%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 31% (74 / 452 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.