Live Play Data

Thopter Engineer

· Creature — Human Artificer · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

190

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=41

10%

17%

12%

22%

29%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 27% (7 / 41 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

191 brought · 78 players

Brought to game

191

Ever drawn

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.

≥ -3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=40) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=116).

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 +12.2pp; 95% confidence interval -3.0pp to +27.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

53 instances

3.8%

Library

41.5%

Battlefield

37.7%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 37 decks
2 Winota, Joiner of Forces 17 decks
3 Osgir, the Reconstructor 3 decks
4 Alibou, Ancient Witness 2 decks
5 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 2 decks
6 Cayth, Famed Mechanist 2 decks
7 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 2 decks
8 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death 1 decks
9 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks
10 A-Winota, Joiner of Forces 1 decks

Card text

Thopter Engineer

Creature — Human Artificer

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Artifact creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and {T}

as soon as they come under your control.)

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Commander 2021 (C21) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Steve Prescott

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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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.