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Artifact
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
Live Play Data
Mana Vault
6%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
3990
Decks Running
1808
Median Cast Turn
3
Drawn → Played
82%
Format
First-cast turn
n=885
31%
T1
12%
T2
10%
T3
9%
T4
9%
T5
25%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median
3
P25
1
· P75
6
· max
17
On curve
31%
(274 / 885 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
74%
The "good card" funnel
3990 brought · 947 playersBrought to game
3990
Ever drawn
1075
Reached battlefield
885
Still on board at game end
733
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.
≥ +7.9pp
Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=823) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2390).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=166).
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 +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval +7.9pp to +14.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
1198 instances4.5%
Library
61.2%
Battlefield
16.1%
Graveyard
6.1%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games- 1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 50 decks
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2
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
37 decks
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3
The Ur-Dragon
36 decks
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4
Vivi Ornitier
30 decks
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5
Krenko, Mob Boss
26 decks
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6
Urza, Lord High Artificer
26 decks
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7
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
24 decks
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8
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
24 decks
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9
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
23 decks
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10
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
22 decks
Card text
Mana Vault
Artifact
This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
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Mythic
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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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.