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Academy Manufactor

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

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Times Brought

920

Decks Running

467

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

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

Final zone distribution

204 instances

2.0%

Library

49.5%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 45 decks
2 Mr. House, President and CEO 39 decks
3 Hazel of the Rootbloom 31 decks
4 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 17 decks
5 Smaug the Impenetrable 16 decks
6 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 14 decks
7 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 11 decks
8 Olivia, Opulent Outlaw 11 decks
9 Smaug the Magnificent 11 decks
10 Ygra, Eater of All 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

920 brought · 397 players

Brought to game

920

Ever drawn

193

Reached battlefield

153

Still on board at game end

101

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=129) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=553).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=33) — 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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=153

13%

15%

16%

17%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 32% (23 / 153 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

1365 of 300 tracked games 99%

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.