Live Play Data

Sai, Master Thopterist

· Legendary Creature — Human Artificer · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1540

Decks Running

696

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=421

14%

24%

15%

11%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 18

On curve 40% (102 / 421 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

1541 brought · 596 players

Brought to game

1541

Ever drawn

431

Reached battlefield

291

Still on board at game end

178

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ +4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=270) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=955).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=125).

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 +10.5pp; 95% confidence interval +4.8pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

470 instances

3.2%

Library

37.9%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Urza, Lord High Artificer 58 decks
2 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 47 decks
3 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 45 decks
4 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 38 decks
5 Golbez, Crystal Collector 37 decks
6 Urza, Chief Artificer 37 decks
7 Breya, Etherium Shaper 34 decks
8 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 20 decks
9 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor 15 decks
10 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 14 decks

Card text

Sai, Master Thopterist

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. {1}

, Sacrifice two artifacts: Draw a card.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Adam Paquette

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.