Live Play Data

Ornithopter of Paradise

· Artifact Creature — Thopter · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3462

Decks Running

1699

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=664

13%

25%

10%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 38% (165 / 664 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

The "good card" funnel

3471 brought · 1294 players

Brought to game

3471

Ever drawn

865

Reached battlefield

664

Still on board at game end

360

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=616) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2168).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=173).

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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval +3.1pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

960 instances

3.0%

Library

37.5%

Battlefield

35.3%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Ornithopter of Paradise

Artifact Creature — Thopter

Flying

: Add one mana of any color.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Common · Illustrated by Raoul Vitale

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.