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Hedron Detonator card art
Live Play Data

Hedron Detonator

{2} {R} · Creature — Goblin Artificer · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
122
Decks Running
74
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
71%
Format

First-cast turn

n=20
0%
T1
10%
T2
10%
T3
20%
T4
5%
T5
50%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11
On curve 20% (2 / 20 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

122 brought · 73 players
Brought to game
122
Ever drawn
28
Reached battlefield
20
Still on board at game end
17

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ -15.0pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=18) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=77).

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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -15.0pp to +30.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

30 instances
56.7%
Battlefield
20.0%
Graveyard
3.3%
Exile
20.0%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Hedron Detonator card

Hedron Detonator

{2} {R}
Creature — Goblin Artificer
Whenever an artifact you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Caroline Gariba

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.