Live Play Data

Mimic Vat

· Artifact · New Capenna Commander (NCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

575

Decks Running

292

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=91

15%

21%

12%

35%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 20% (14 / 91 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

575 brought · 272 players

Brought to game

575

Ever drawn

145

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=77) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=346).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=47).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

164 instances

3.7%

Library

34.8%

Battlefield

27.4%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 26 decks
2 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 22 decks
3 Kathril, Aspect Warper 12 decks
4 Brion Stoutarm 11 decks
5 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 9 decks
6 Ghired, Conclave Exile 9 decks
7 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 8 decks
8 Herigast, Erupting Nullkite 8 decks
9 Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded 7 decks
10 The Master, Multiplied 7 decks

Card text

Mimic Vat

Artifact

Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with this artifact to its owner's graveyard. {3}

: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with this artifact. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

New Capenna Commander (NCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Donato Giancola

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.