Live Play Data

Marionette Apprentice

· Creature — Human Artificer · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1550

Decks Running

701

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=272

17%

13%

16%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 21% (46 / 272 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

1554 brought · 606 players

Brought to game

1554

Ever drawn

346

Reached battlefield

272

Still on board at game end

143

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=251) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=1030).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=60).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -0.7pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

385 instances

1.8%

Library

37.1%

Battlefield

39.0%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 70 decks
2 Smaug the Impenetrable 51 decks
3 Ygra, Eater of All 33 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 31 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 28 decks
6 Mr. House, President and CEO 27 decks
7 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor 17 decks
8 Breya, Etherium Shaper 16 decks
9 Prosper, Tome-Bound 16 decks
10 Shadow the Hedgehog 16 decks

Card text

Marionette Apprentice

Creature — Human Artificer

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Steve Ellis

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.