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Hangarback Walker
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Artifact Creature — Construct
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
2%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
126
Decks Running
79
In Decks
594
Decklist Inclusion
2%
Format
Final zone distribution
35 instances8.6%
Battlefield
42.9%
Graveyard
28.6%
Exile
20.0%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Zimone, Infinite Analyst
31 decks
-
2
Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
7 decks
-
3
Kilo, Apogee Mind
7 decks
-
4
Emry, Lurker of the Loch
2 decks
-
5
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
2 decks
-
6
Sami, Wildcat Captain
2 decks
-
7
Teysa Karlov
2 decks
- 8 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 2 decks
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9
Animar, Soul of Elements
1 decks
-
10
Breya, Etherium Shaper
1 decks
The "good card" funnel
127 brought · 76 playersBrought to game
127
Ever drawn
31
Reached battlefield
21
Still on board at game end
3
Once cast, 14% 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.
≥ -23.7pp
Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=21) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=84).
Observed gap -7.2pp; 95% confidence interval -23.7pp to +9.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=21
10%
T1
0%
T2
14%
T3
24%
T4
0%
T5
48%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median
6
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
10
Cast same turn as drawn
29%
21 of 100 times cast
21%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
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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.