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Thopter Engineer

· Creature — Human Artificer · Commander 2021 (C21)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

125

Decks Running

In Decks

446

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

40 instances

5.0%

Library

42.5%

Battlefield

35.0%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 29 decks
2 Winota, Joiner of Forces 12 decks
3 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 2 decks
4 Cayth, Famed Mechanist 2 decks
5 Osgir, the Reconstructor 2 decks
6 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 2 decks
7 Alibou, Ancient Witness 1 decks
8 Balthier and Fran 1 decks
9 General Ferrous Rokiric 1 decks
10 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

126 brought · 57 players

Brought to game

126

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=29) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=71).

Observed gap +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -11.3pp to +22.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

19%

16%

19%

23%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 29% (6 / 31 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

31 of 100 times cast 31%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.