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Adaptive Automaton

{3} · Artifact Creature — Construct · Foundations (FDN)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
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Times Brought
242
Decks Running
138
In Decks
972
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Adaptive Automaton card

Adaptive Automaton

{3}
Artifact Creature — Construct
As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
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Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Igor Kieryluk

Final zone distribution

51 instances
5.9%
Library
39.2%
Battlefield
29.4%
Graveyard
5.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

242 brought · 125 players
Brought to game
242
Ever drawn
48
Reached battlefield
36
Still on board at game end
20

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -9.0pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=33) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=162).

Observed gap +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -9.0pp to +20.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36
0%
T1
0%
T2
22%
T3
14%
T4
22%
T5
33%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 18
On curve 22% (8 / 36 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%
36 of 100 times cast 36%

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.