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Hangarback Walker

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

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Times Brought

1037

Decks Running

537

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

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

246 instances

2.4%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

27.2%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1037 brought · 477 players

Brought to game

1037

Ever drawn

236

Reached battlefield

151

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=104) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=517).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=58).

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 +5.3pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=151

13%

15%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.