Live Play Data

Thought Vessel

· Artifact · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

18%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

22036

Decks Running

9978

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=4467

12%

21%

11%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 23

On curve 33% (953 / 4467 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

The "good card" funnel

22046 brought · 5025 players

Brought to game

22046

Ever drawn

5800

Reached battlefield

4467

Still on board at game end

3712

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.

≥ +5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=4044) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=13543).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=1192).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.9pp to +8.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

6396 instances

2.6%

Library

58.0%

Battlefield

17.6%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 363 decks
2 Captain America, Team Leader 278 decks
3 Ms. Bumbleflower 235 decks
4 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 224 decks
5 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 165 decks
6 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 159 decks
7 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 113 decks
8 Sai, Master Thopterist 108 decks
9 Szarekh, the Silent King 98 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 96 decks

Card text

Thought Vessel

Artifact

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Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Leesha Hannigan

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.