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Forensic Gadgeteer

{2} {U} · Creature — Vedalken Artificer Detective · Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)
Times Brought
195
Decks Running
105
In Decks
Decklist Inclusion
Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text
Forensic Gadgeteer card

Forensic Gadgeteer

{2} {U}
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

Final zone distribution

45 instances
4.4%
Library
31.1%
Battlefield
28.9%
Graveyard
6.7%
Exile

The "good card" funnel

196 brought · 102 players
Brought to game
196
Ever drawn
42
Reached battlefield
22
Still on board at game end
14

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ -11.5pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=19) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=110).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=15).

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 +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -11.5pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22
0%
T1
0%
T2
23%
T3
27%
T4
18%
T5
32%
T6-9
0%
T10+
Median 4.5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 9
On curve 23% (5 / 22 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.