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Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand

Legendary Artifact // Legendary Artifact Land · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

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Times Brought

364

Decks Running

164

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Thousand Moons Smithy

Legendary Artifact

When Thousand Moons Smithy enters, create a white Gnome Soldier artifact creature token with "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts and/or creatures you control." At the beginning of your first main phase, you may tap five untapped artifacts and/or creatures you control. If you do, transform Thousand Moons Smithy.

Barracks of the Thousand

Legendary Artifact Land

(Transforms from Thousand Moons Smithy.) {T}

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. Whenever you cast an artifact or creature spell using mana produced by Barracks of the Thousand, create a white Gnome Soldier artifact creature token with "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts and/or creatures you control."

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Rare · Illustrated by Manuel Castañón

Final zone distribution

88 instances

2.3%

Library

51.1%

Battlefield

19.3%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 26 decks
2 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 14 decks
3 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 13 decks
4 Urza, Chief Artificer 7 decks
5 Breya, Etherium Shaper 6 decks
6 Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus 5 decks
7 Kilo, Apogee Mind 4 decks
8 Captain America, Living Legend 3 decks
9 Commander Mustard 3 decks
10 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

366 brought · 147 players

Brought to game

366

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ +2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=45) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=205).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=23).

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 +10.3pp; 95% confidence interval +2.7pp to +17.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=53

13%

64%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 15% (7 / 53 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.