Live Play Data

Stridehangar Automaton

· Artifact Creature — Construct · Aetherdrift Commander (DRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

405

Decks Running

188

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=78

14%

12%

18%

42%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 18% (11 / 78 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

406 brought · 177 players

Brought to game

406

Ever drawn

109

Reached battlefield

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.

≥ +10.8pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=74) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=246).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=29).

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 +22.5pp; 95% confidence interval +10.8pp to +34.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

129 instances

2.3%

Library

32.6%

Battlefield

31.0%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 17 decks
2 Mr. House, President and CEO 13 decks
3 Marneus Calgar 12 decks
4 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 11 decks
5 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 11 decks
6 Breya, Etherium Shaper 10 decks
7 The Cabbage Merchant 9 decks
8 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 7 decks
9 Knuckles the Echidna 6 decks
10 Rocco, Street Chef 4 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.