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Loyal Apprentice

· Creature — Human Artificer · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

988

Decks Running

523

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Loyal Apprentice

Creature — Human Artificer

Haste Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. That token gains haste until end of turn.

2 / 1

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Joe Slucher

Final zone distribution

181 instances

0.6%

Library

43.6%

Battlefield

35.9%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

988 brought · 492 players

Brought to game

988

Ever drawn

174

Reached battlefield

143

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=110) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=580).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=23).

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 +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +6.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=143

19%

13%

11%

15%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 27% (27 / 143 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

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.