Live Play Data

Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1363

Decks Running

578

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=289

17%

11%

17%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 27% (50 / 289 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

1363 brought · 494 players

Brought to game

1363

Ever drawn

350

Reached battlefield

268

Still on board at game end

144

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.

≥ +1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=247) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=850).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=74).

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 +8.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.8pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

382 instances

3.4%

Library

37.7%

Battlefield

31.7%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 65 decks
2 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 44 decks
3 Omnath, Locus of the Void 33 decks
4 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 24 decks
5 Molecule Man 23 decks
6 Karn, Legacy Reforged 20 decks
7 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 15 decks
8 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 13 decks
9 Urza, Chief Artificer 13 decks
10 Urza, Lord High Artificer 11 decks

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

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.