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Cryptothrall

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

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Times Brought

194

Decks Running

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

Cryptothrall

Artifact Creature — Construct

Protector — Other artifact creatures you control have hexproof.

3 / 3

Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) · Rare · Illustrated by Henry Peters

Final zone distribution

45 instances

40.0%

Battlefield

22.2%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

31.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Szarekh, the Silent King 24 decks
2 Imotekh the Stormlord 14 decks
3 Dr. Eggman 10 decks
4 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 10 decks
5 Trazyn the Infinite 5 decks
6 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 3 decks
7 Doctor Doom 3 decks
8 Reaper King 3 decks
9 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 2 decks
10 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

194 brought · 93 players

Brought to game

194

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ -5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=23) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=126).

Observed gap +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.8pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

19%

48%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 22% (3 / 27 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

27 of 100 times cast 27%

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.