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Gold-Forged Thopteryx

· Artifact Creature — Dinosaur Thopter · March of the Machine: The Aftermath (MAT)

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Times Brought

312

Decks Running

168

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

Gold-Forged Thopteryx

Artifact Creature — Dinosaur Thopter

Flying, lifelink Each legendary permanent you control has ward {2}

. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}

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March of the Machine: The Aftermath (MAT) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Titus Lunter

Final zone distribution

72 instances

44.4%

Battlefield

31.9%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

18.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hope Estheim 26 decks
2 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 17 decks
3 Will, Scion of Peace 13 decks
4 Infinite Guideline Station 11 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 10 decks
6 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 9 decks
7 Errant and Giada 4 decks
8 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 4 decks
9 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 4 decks
10 Alela, Artful Provocateur 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

313 brought · 164 players

Brought to game

313

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=49) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=208).

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 +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.7pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=50

12%

20%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 10% (4 / 50 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

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.