Live Play Data

Stridehangar Automaton

· Artifact Creature — Construct · Aetherdrift Commander (DRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

884

Decks Running

379

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=151

11%

17%

16%

42%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 15% (17 / 151 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

885 brought · 345 players

Brought to game

885

Ever drawn

221

Reached battlefield

151

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +11.4pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=141) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=568).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=65).

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 +19.8pp; 95% confidence interval +11.4pp to +28.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

251 instances

2.0%

Library

32.7%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

10.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 29 decks
2 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 28 decks
3 Mr. House, President and CEO 25 decks
4 Marneus Calgar 22 decks
5 Breya, Etherium Shaper 18 decks
6 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 16 decks
7 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 14 decks
8 Vraska, Soul of Stone 13 decks
9 The Cabbage Merchant 11 decks
10 Aerid Konstrari 9 decks

Card text

Stridehangar Automaton

Artifact Creature — Construct

Thopters you control get +1/+1. If one or more artifact tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus an additional 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying are created instead.

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Aetherdrift Commander (DRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Aaron J. Riley

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.