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Game Changer
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#16 colorless ramp card
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Artifact
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
Live Play Data
Mana Vault
6%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
7580
Decks Running
3169
Median Cast Turn
3.0
Drawn → Played
83%
Format
First-cast turn
n=1716
30%
T1
13%
T2
10%
T3
10%
T4
9%
T5
24%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median
3.0
P25
1
· P75
6
· max
20
On curve
30%
(519 / 1716 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
73%
The "good card" funnel
7580 brought · 1599 playersBrought to game
7580
Ever drawn
2068
Reached battlefield
1716
Still on board at game end
1414
Once cast, 82% 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.
≥ +8.1pp
Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=1537) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=4512).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=306).
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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval +8.1pp to +13.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
2278 instances4.1%
Library
62.1%
Battlefield
15.7%
Graveyard
6.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games- 1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 90 decks
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2
The Ur-Dragon
68 decks
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3
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
59 decks
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4
Vivi Ornitier
57 decks
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5
Urza, Lord High Artificer
47 decks
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6
Krenko, Mob Boss
45 decks
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7
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
41 decks
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8
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
40 decks
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9
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
37 decks
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10
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
36 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 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.