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Marionette Apprentice

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

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Times Brought

1224

Decks Running

601

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

255 instances

1.6%

Library

44.3%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 61 decks
2 Smaug the Impenetrable 38 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 34 decks
4 Ygra, Eater of All 31 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 24 decks
6 Mr. House, President and CEO 19 decks
7 Shadow the Hedgehog 19 decks
8 Prosper, Tome-Bound 17 decks
9 Smaug, Wicked Worm 16 decks
10 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 14 decks

The "good card" funnel

1224 brought · 529 players

Brought to game

1224

Ever drawn

236

Reached battlefield

197

Still on board at game end

113

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=169) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=740).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=35).

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 +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -3.0pp to +5.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=197

18%

13%

11%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 27% (36 / 197 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.