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Live Play Data

Voltaic Key

{1} · Artifact · Magic 2011 (M11)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
1609
Decks Running
628
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
85%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=362
17%
T1
11%
T2
9%
T3
10%
T4
11%
T5
32%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16
On curve 17% (62 / 362 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 68%

The "good card" funnel

1609 brought · 525 players
Brought to game
1609
Ever drawn
428
Reached battlefield
362
Still on board at game end
291

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ +6.9pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=329) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1060).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=63).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval +6.9pp to +17.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

465 instances
3.9%
Library
62.6%
Battlefield
18.1%
Graveyard
4.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Voltaic Key card

Voltaic Key

{1}
Artifact
{1}, {T}: Untap target artifact.
Magic 2011 (M11) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.