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Cryptothrall
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Artifact Creature — Construct
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Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
292
Decks Running
153
In Decks
831
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Card text
Cryptothrall
Artifact Creature — Construct
Protector — Other artifact creatures you control have hexproof.
3 / 3
Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Henry Peters
Final zone distribution
73 instances31.5%
Battlefield
38.4%
Graveyard
6.8%
Exile
23.3%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Szarekh, the Silent King
41 decks
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2
Imotekh the Stormlord
20 decks
- 3 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 19 decks
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4
Dr. Eggman
13 decks
- 5 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 5 decks
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6
Trazyn the Infinite
4 decks
-
7
Aloy, Savior of Meridian
3 decks
- 8 Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut 3 decks
- 9 Karn, Legacy Reforged 3 decks
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10
Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force
3 decks
The "good card" funnel
292 brought · 140 playersBrought to game
292
Ever drawn
66
Reached battlefield
48
Still on board at game end
23
Once cast, 48% 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.
≥ -4.2pp
Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=44) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=182).
Observed gap +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +23.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=48
0%
T1
2%
T2
8%
T3
13%
T4
10%
T5
58%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median
6.5
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
10
On curve
23%
(6 / 48 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
38%
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.