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Voltaic Key

· Artifact · Magic 2011 (M11)

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Times Brought

792

Decks Running

342

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

Voltaic Key

Artifact

: Untap target artifact.

Magic 2011 (M11) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel

Final zone distribution

191 instances

2.6%

Library

72.3%

Battlefield

11.0%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 41 decks
2 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 30 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 28 decks
4 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 15 decks
5 Kilo, Apogee Mind 14 decks
6 Molecule Man 12 decks
7 Karn, Legacy Reforged 8 decks
8 Omnath, Locus of the Void 8 decks
9 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 8 decks
10 Daretti, Scrap Savant 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

792 brought · 289 players

Brought to game

792

Ever drawn

183

Reached battlefield

155

Still on board at game end

138

Once cast, 89% 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.

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=130) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=431).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=19).

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 +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +8.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=155

34%

12%

13%

24%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 34% (53 / 155 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 80%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.