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Hangarback Walker

· Artifact Creature — Construct · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

476

Decks Running

247

In Decks

1732

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Hangarback Walker

Artifact Creature — Construct

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying for each +1/+1 counter on this creature. {1}

: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

0 / 0

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Daarken

Final zone distribution

130 instances

3.8%

Library

22.3%

Battlefield

38.5%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 62 decks
2 Kilo, Apogee Mind 32 decks
3 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 26 decks
4 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 17 decks
5 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 5 decks
6 Teysa Karlov 5 decks
7 Breya, Etherium Shaper 4 decks
8 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 4 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 3 decks
10 Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

477 brought · 231 players

Brought to game

477

Ever drawn

124

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 35% 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.

≥ -8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=81) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=289).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=37) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -8.1pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=84

14%

12%

51%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 33%

84 of 100 times cast 84%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.