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Scrap Trawler

· Artifact Creature — Construct · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

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Times Brought

857

Decks Running

433

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

Scrap Trawler

Artifact Creature — Construct

Whenever this creature dies or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.

3 / 2

March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Daarken

Final zone distribution

198 instances

2.0%

Library

36.4%

Battlefield

33.8%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Imotekh the Stormlord 30 decks
2 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 25 decks
3 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 23 decks
4 Dr. Eggman 19 decks
5 Karn, Legacy Reforged 15 decks
6 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation 14 decks
7 Breya, Etherium Shaper 13 decks
8 Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force 12 decks
9 Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp 11 decks
10 Gandalf the White 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

857 brought · 367 players

Brought to game

857

Ever drawn

184

Reached battlefield

130

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=94) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=492).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=39).

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 +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -3.7pp to +7.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=130

11%

15%

47%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 15% (12 / 130 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.