Live Play Data

Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

951

Decks Running

424

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=196

18%

13%

15%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 28% (35 / 196 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

951 brought · 366 players

Brought to game

951

Ever drawn

239

Reached battlefield

182

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.

≥ +3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=169) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=592).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=51).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +3.4pp to +18.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

265 instances

3.0%

Library

37.0%

Battlefield

32.8%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 51 decks
2 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 35 decks
3 Molecule Man 18 decks
4 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 18 decks
5 Karn, Legacy Reforged 14 decks
6 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 13 decks
7 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 12 decks
8 Urza, Chief Artificer 12 decks
9 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 9 decks
10 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 8 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.