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Universal Automaton

{1} · Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter · Modern Horizons (MH1)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Buy on TCGplayer
Times Brought
131
Decks Running
78
In Decks
646
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

35 instances
37.1%
Battlefield
45.7%
Graveyard
8.6%
Exile
8.6%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

131 brought · 77 players
Brought to game
131
Ever drawn
30
Reached battlefield
25
Still on board at game end
13

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -15.0pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=25) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=75).

Observed gap +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -15.0pp to +19.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25
4%
T1
4%
T2
16%
T3
28%
T4
20%
T5
24%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median 4 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 10
On curve 4% (1 / 25 cast on T1)
25 of 100 times cast 25%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.