Live Play Data

Plasma Caster

· Artifact — Equipment · Fallout (PIP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

166

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

15%

52%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 7% (1 / 27 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 54%

The "good card" funnel

166 brought · 83 players

Brought to game

166

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ -6.7pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=23) , vs 12% when it never left the library (n=104).

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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.7pp to +27.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

44 instances

50.0%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

22.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Plasma Caster

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you get {E}

(two energy counters). Pay {E}

: Choose target creature that's blocking equipped creature. Flip a coin. If you win the flip, exile the chosen creature. Otherwise, this Equipment deals 1 damage to it. Equip {2}

Fallout (PIP) · Rare · Illustrated by Kekai Kotaki

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.