Live Play Data

Shorikai, Genesis Engine

· Legendary Artifact — Vehicle · Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

473

Decks Running

226

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=235

23%

28%

18%

21%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 12

On curve 59% (65 / 235 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

473 brought · 211 players

Brought to game

473

Ever drawn

115

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=61) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=296).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=43).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.2pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

126 instances

4.8%

Library

35.7%

Battlefield

20.6%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Marneus Calgar 33 decks
2 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 15 decks
3 Captain America, Living Legend 14 decks
4 Kotori, Pilot Prodigy 14 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 14 decks
6 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 13 decks
7 Miles "Tails" Prower 11 decks
8 Belisarius Cawl 9 decks
9 Bard, King of Dale 8 decks
10 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 7 decks

Card text

Shorikai, Genesis Engine

Legendary Artifact — Vehicle

: Draw two cards, then discard a card. Create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater." Crew 8 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 8 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

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Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Wisnu Tan

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.