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Cryptothrall

· Artifact Creature — Construct · Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

248

Decks Running

131

In Decks

765

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

62 instances

29.0%

Battlefield

43.5%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

21.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Szarekh, the Silent King 35 decks
2 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 17 decks
3 Imotekh the Stormlord 15 decks
4 Dr. Eggman 13 decks
5 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 4 decks
6 Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut 3 decks
7 Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force 3 decks
8 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 3 decks
9 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 2 decks
10 Ashad, the Lone Cyberman 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

248 brought · 123 players

Brought to game

248

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=38) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=161).

Observed gap +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -7.7pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

10%

13%

57%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 25% (5 / 40 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

40 of 100 times cast 40%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.