Live Play Data

Thopter Spy Network

· Enchantment · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

784

Decks Running

397

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=115

10%

20%

49%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 18% (11 / 115 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

785 brought · 373 players

Brought to game

785

Ever drawn

193

Reached battlefield

115

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=107) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=504).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=72).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval +3.6pp to +21.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

211 instances

3.3%

Library

42.7%

Battlefield

15.6%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dr. Eggman 36 decks
2 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 30 decks
3 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 26 decks
4 Breya, Etherium Shaper 24 decks
5 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 23 decks
6 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 19 decks
7 Urza, Chief Artificer 15 decks
8 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 12 decks
9 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 11 decks
10 Urza, Lord High Artificer 11 decks

Card text

Thopter Spy Network

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jung Park

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