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Mana Vault card art
Live Play Data

Mana Vault

{1} · Artifact · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
6%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
5769
Decks Running
2550
Median Cast Turn
3.0
Drawn → Played
83%
Format

First-cast turn

n=1280
31%
T1
13%
T2
10%
T3
10%
T4
9%
T5
24%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 17
On curve 31% (391 / 1280 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 73%

The "good card" funnel

5769 brought · 1331 players
Brought to game
5769
Ever drawn
1550
Reached battlefield
1280
Still on board at game end
1057

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ +7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=1157) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=3429).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=237).

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 +10.5pp; 95% confidence interval +7.6pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1710 instances
4.2%
Library
61.8%
Battlefield
15.3%
Graveyard
6.0%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Mana Vault card

Mana Vault

{1}
Artifact
This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Mythic · Illustrated by Christine Choi

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.