Live Play Data

Donatello, Way with Machines

· Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

105

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

105 brought · 35 players

Brought to game

105

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -24.1pp

Players who cast this card win 4% of the time (n=17) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=67).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap -12.4pp; 95% confidence interval -24.1pp to -0.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

29 instances

27.6%

Battlefield

24.1%

Graveyard

17.2%

Exile

31.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Leonardo, the Balance 9 decks
2 Donatello, the Brains 5 decks
3 Mikey & Don, Party Planners 4 decks
4 Heroes in a Half Shell 3 decks
5 Splinter, Radical Rat 3 decks
6 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 2 decks
7 Don & Leo, Problem Solvers 2 decks
8 Baxter Stockman 1 decks
9 Donatello, Mutant Mechanic 1 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks

Card text

Donatello, Way with Machines

Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle

Flying Whenever an artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Donatello.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.