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Live Play Data

Marionette Apprentice

{1} {B} · Creature — Human Artificer · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
4%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
2709
Decks Running
1125
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
79%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=487
1%
T1
18%
T2
10%
T3
9%
T4
15%
T5
38%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 17
On curve 18% (87 / 487 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

2713 brought · 954 players
Brought to game
2713
Ever drawn
614
Reached battlefield
487
Still on board at game end
252

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ +2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=446) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=1803).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=108).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval +2.4pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

678 instances
2.1%
Library
37.2%
Battlefield
38.9%
Graveyard
6.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Marionette Apprentice card

Marionette Apprentice

{1} {B}
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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.