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Adaptive Automaton

· Artifact Creature — Construct · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

233

Decks Running

129

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Card text

Adaptive Automaton

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.

2 / 2

Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Igor Kieryluk

Final zone distribution

43 instances

53.5%

Battlefield

23.3%

Graveyard

23.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 12 decks
2 Shroofus Sproutsire 12 decks
3 Kudo, King Among Bears 7 decks
4 Krenko, Mob Boss 6 decks
5 Marrow-Gnawer 6 decks
6 Ayula, Queen Among Bears 5 decks
7 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 5 decks
8 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 4 decks
9 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 4 decks
10 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

233 brought · 112 players

Brought to game

233

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ -11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=28) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=150).

Observed gap -1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -11.3pp to +9.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

16%

19%

13%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 9

On curve 44% (6 / 32 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

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.