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Arc Reactor

· Artifact · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

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Times Brought

217

Decks Running

108

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

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

31 instances

3.2%

Library

58.1%

Battlefield

22.6%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 29 decks
2 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 10 decks
3 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation 7 decks
4 Molecule Man 7 decks
5 T'Challa, the Black Panther 5 decks
6 Ultron the Annihilator 3 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 2 decks
8 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 2 decks
9 Iron Man, Master of Machines 2 decks
10 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

217 brought · 103 players

Brought to game

217

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ +0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=16) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=137).

Observed gap +12.1pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +23.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=24

25%

50%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 38% (6 / 24 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

24 of 100 times cast 24%

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.