Live Play Data

Universal Automaton

· Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

808

Decks Running

411

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

84%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=165

18%

13%

12%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 18% (30 / 165 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 66%

The "good card" funnel

808 brought · 374 players

Brought to game

808

Ever drawn

196

Reached battlefield

165

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ +2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=150) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=500).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=31).

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 +2.5pp to +18.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

225 instances

1.3%

Library

35.1%

Battlefield

43.6%

Graveyard

11.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Universal Automaton

Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)

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Modern Horizons (MH1) · Common · Illustrated by Ben Maier

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.