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Live Play Data

Magmakin Artillerist

{2} {R} · Creature — Elemental Pirate · Aetherdrift (DFT)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
793
Decks Running
309
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
65%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=185
0%
T1
2%
T2
15%
T3
8%
T4
23%
T5
44%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14
On curve 17% (28 / 185 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

798 brought · 287 players
Brought to game
798
Ever drawn
286
Reached battlefield
185
Still on board at game end
116

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=178) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=455).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=97).

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 +13.6pp; 95% confidence interval +5.8pp to +21.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

297 instances
1.7%
Library
39.1%
Battlefield
37.4%
Graveyard
6.4%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Magmakin Artillerist card

Magmakin Artillerist

{2} {R}
Creature — Elemental Pirate
Whenever you discard one or more cards, this creature deals that much damage to each opponent. Cycling {1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, it deals 1 damage to each opponent.
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Aetherdrift (DFT) · Common · Illustrated by Madeline Boni

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.