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Shadow Puppeteers

{6} {U} · Creature — Faerie Wizard · Wilds of Eldraine Commander (WOC)
Times Brought
208
Decks Running
79
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Shadow Puppeteers card

Shadow Puppeteers

{6} {U}
Creature — Faerie Wizard
Flying, ward {2} When this creature enters, create two 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying. Whenever a creature you control with flying attacks, you may have it become a red Dragon with base power and toughness 4/4 in addition to its other colors and types until end of turn.
4 / 4
Wilds of Eldraine Commander (WOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

Final zone distribution

50 instances
6.0%
Library
30.0%
Battlefield
18.0%
Graveyard
46.0%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 71 players
Brought to game
208
Ever drawn
47
Reached battlefield
22
Still on board at game end
15

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=21) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=129).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=20).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
0%
T4
5%
T5
68%
T6-9
27%
T10+
Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 12
On curve 36% (4 / 22 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.