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Stridehangar Automaton

· Artifact Creature — Construct · Aetherdrift Commander (DRC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

324

Decks Running

152

In Decks

1034

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

105 instances

1.9%

Library

34.3%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 12 decks
2 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 11 decks
3 Mr. House, President and CEO 10 decks
4 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 10 decks
5 Breya, Etherium Shaper 9 decks
6 Marneus Calgar 9 decks
7 The Cabbage Merchant 7 decks
8 Knuckles the Echidna 6 decks
9 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 6 decks
10 Rocco, Street Chef 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

325 brought · 145 players

Brought to game

325

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +10.5pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=58) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=198).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=24) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +23.5pp; 95% confidence interval +10.5pp to +36.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=63

11%

10%

19%

44%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 14% (7 / 63 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

63 of 100 times cast 63%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.