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Magmakin Artillerist

· Creature — Elemental Pirate · Aetherdrift (DFT)

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Times Brought

292

Decks Running

144

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

Magmakin Artillerist

Creature — Elemental Pirate

Whenever you discard one or more cards, this creature deals that much damage to each opponent. Cycling {1}

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, 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

Final zone distribution

91 instances

1.1%

Library

47.3%

Battlefield

23.1%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 29 decks
2 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 17 decks
3 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 14 decks
4 Sanar, Innovative First-Year 12 decks
5 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 9 decks
6 Brallin, Skyshark Rider 4 decks
7 Queen Kayla bin-Kroog 4 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 4 decks
9 Anje Falkenrath 3 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

294 brought · 134 players

Brought to game

294

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ +7.3pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=38) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=145).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=30).

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 +15.5pp; 95% confidence interval +7.3pp to +23.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=53

25%

23%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 19% (5 / 53 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.