Live Play Data

Shaun, Father of Synths

· Legendary Creature — Human Scientist · Fallout (PIP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

192

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

67%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 19% (2 / 27 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

192 brought · 80 players

Brought to game

192

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -16.8pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=23) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=123).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=16).

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 -0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -16.8pp to +15.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

50 instances

24.0%

Battlefield

32.0%

Graveyard

12.0%

Exile

32.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Shaun, Father of Synths

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist

Whenever you attack, you may create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of target attacking legendary creature you control other than Shaun, except it's not legendary and it's a Synth artifact creature in addition to its other types. When Shaun leaves the battlefield, exile all Synth tokens you control.

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Fallout (PIP) · Rare · Illustrated by Zuzanna Wużyk

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.