Live Play Data

Thought Vessel

· Artifact · Mystery Booster Commander Edition (MBC)

18%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

12075

Decks Running

5862

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=2426

12%

21%

12%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 33% (520 / 2426 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

The "good card" funnel

12083 brought · 3202 players

Brought to game

12083

Ever drawn

3145

Reached battlefield

2426

Still on board at game end

2011

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ +4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=2224) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=7541).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=647).

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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval +4.8pp to +8.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

3450 instances

2.6%

Library

58.3%

Battlefield

17.5%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 243 decks
2 Captain America, Team Leader 195 decks
3 Ms. Bumbleflower 150 decks
4 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 146 decks
5 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 100 decks
6 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 92 decks
7 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 70 decks
8 Szarekh, the Silent King 61 decks
9 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 56 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 54 decks

Card text

Thought Vessel

Artifact

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Mystery Booster Commander Edition (MBC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by rk post

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.