Live Play Data

Machinesmith Automaton

· Artifact Creature — Robot Villain · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

188

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

19%

13%

32%

19%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 23% (6 / 31 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

188 brought · 62 players

Brought to game

188

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 32% 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.

≥ -13.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=30) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=127).

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 +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -13.6pp to +19.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

49 instances

4.1%

Library

20.4%

Battlefield

38.8%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 13 decks
2 Dr. Eggman 4 decks
3 Iron Man, Master of Machines 3 decks
4 Knuckles the Echidna 3 decks
5 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 3 decks
6 Aerid Konstrari 2 decks
7 Dr. Madison Li 2 decks
8 Kilo, Apogee Mind 2 decks
9 Madame Hydra 2 decks
10 Mm'menon, Uthros Exile 2 decks

Card text

Machinesmith Automaton

Artifact Creature — Robot Villain

Trample Whenever another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

2 / 2

Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Common · Illustrated by Wero Gallo

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.