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Sai, Master Thopterist

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

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Times Brought

325

Decks Running

181

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

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

Final zone distribution

71 instances

2.8%

Library

64.8%

Battlefield

12.7%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 16 decks
2 Urza, Lord High Artificer 15 decks
3 Breya, Etherium Shaper 14 decks
4 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 13 decks
5 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 11 decks
6 Urza, Chief Artificer 11 decks
7 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 9 decks
8 Golbez, Crystal Collector 6 decks
9 Kotori, Pilot Prodigy 5 decks
10 Sai, Master Thopterist 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

325 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

325

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 84% 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.

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=43) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=209).

Observed gap +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +13.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=49

12%

18%

14%

12%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 31% (9 / 49 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

49 of 100 times cast 49%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.