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Arc Reactor

· Artifact · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

318

Decks Running

132

In Decks

524

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Arc Reactor

Artifact

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}

.) This artifact enters tapped. {T}

: Add

Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Rare · Illustrated by Maxim Ruabtsev

Final zone distribution

81 instances

3.7%

Library

48.1%

Battlefield

12.3%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 34 decks
2 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 14 decks
3 T'Challa, the Black Panther 8 decks
4 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7 decks
5 Molecule Man 5 decks
6 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation 4 decks
7 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 3 decks
8 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 3 decks
9 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 3 decks
10 Captain America, First Avenger 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

319 brought · 115 players

Brought to game

319

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ -5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=42) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=205).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=26) — 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 +6.9pp; 95% confidence interval -5.3pp to +19.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=48

21%

27%

33%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 56% (13 / 48 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

48 of 100 times cast 48%

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.