Live Play Data

Ingenious Smith

· Creature — Human Artificer · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

526

Decks Running

209

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=87

18%

17%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 20% (16 / 87 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

526 brought · 197 players

Brought to game

526

Ever drawn

110

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -11.0pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=77) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=313).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=17).

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 -1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -11.0pp to +8.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

120 instances

0.8%

Library

30.0%

Battlefield

44.2%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 185 decks
2 Monk Gyatso 7 decks
3 Bruenor Battlehammer 2 decks
4 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 2 decks
5 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 1 decks
6 Astrid Peth 1 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
8 Cid, Timeless Artificer 1 decks
9 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 1 decks
10 Miles "Tails" Prower 1 decks

Card text

Ingenious Smith

Creature — Human Artificer

When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Whenever one or more artifacts you control enter, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability triggers only once each turn.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Michael Machira

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.