Live Play Data

Forensic Gadgeteer

· Creature — Vedalken Artificer Detective · Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

914

Decks Running

441

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=143

20%

15%

18%

30%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 24% (29 / 143 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

914 brought · 401 players

Brought to game

914

Ever drawn

232

Reached battlefield

143

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=134) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=562).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=81).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.7pp to +13.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

270 instances

2.2%

Library

32.6%

Battlefield

28.9%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Urza, Lord High Artificer 55 decks
2 Golbez, Crystal Collector 36 decks
3 Breya, Etherium Shaper 23 decks
4 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 21 decks
5 Morska, Undersea Sleuth 19 decks
6 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor 13 decks
7 Ashnod the Uncaring 9 decks
8 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 9 decks
9 Marneus Calgar 9 decks
10 Sai, Master Thopterist 8 decks

Card text

Forensic Gadgeteer

Creature — Vedalken Artificer Detective

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with " {2}

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost {1}

less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

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Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM) · Rare · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.