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Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter

· Legendary Artifact Creature — Thopter · The Brothers' War (BRO)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

389

Decks Running

211

In Decks

1404

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter

Legendary Artifact Creature — Thopter

Flash Flying You may cast colorless spells and artifact spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast that spell is greater than Liberator's power, put a +1/+1 counter on Liberator.

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The Brothers' War (BRO) · Rare · Illustrated by Ekaterina Burmak

Final zone distribution

112 instances

2.7%

Library

36.6%

Battlefield

37.5%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 26 decks
2 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 16 decks
3 Molecule Man 15 decks
4 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 11 decks
5 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 10 decks
6 Urza, Chief Artificer 6 decks
7 Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer 5 decks
8 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 5 decks
9 Urza, Lord High Artificer 5 decks
10 Karn, Legacy Reforged 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

389 brought · 194 players

Brought to game

389

Ever drawn

100

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=70) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=240).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=24) — 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 +8.1pp; 95% confidence interval -3.5pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=74

19%

14%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 30% (14 / 74 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

74 of 100 times cast 74%

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.