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Stridehangar Automaton

· Artifact Creature — Construct · Aetherdrift Commander (DRC)

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Times Brought

408

Decks Running

223

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

99 instances

43.4%

Battlefield

36.4%

Graveyard

2.0%

Exile

18.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 20 decks
2 Mr. House, President and CEO 14 decks
3 Breya, Etherium Shaper 13 decks
4 Marneus Calgar 13 decks
5 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 12 decks
6 Golbez, Crystal Collector 9 decks
7 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 9 decks
8 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 7 decks
9 Vraska, Soul of Stone 7 decks
10 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

408 brought · 209 players

Brought to game

408

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=56) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=235).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=15).

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 +5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=68

16%

19%

10%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 28

On curve 28% (11 / 68 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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.