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Mimic Vat

· Artifact · New Capenna Commander (NCC)

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Times Brought

186

Decks Running

113

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

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

Final zone distribution

34 instances

44.1%

Battlefield

17.6%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

32.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 14 decks
2 Ghired, Conclave Exile 11 decks
3 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 9 decks
4 Brion Stoutarm 7 decks
5 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 5 decks
6 Hazel of the Rootbloom 5 decks
7 Disa the Restless 4 decks
8 Kathril, Aspect Warper 3 decks
9 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 2 decks
10 Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

187 brought · 104 players

Brought to game

187

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=16) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=105).

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 +11.7pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +25.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

20%

10%

30%

20%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 9 · max 11

On curve 30% (4 / 20 cast on T3)

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.