Live Play Data

Walking Ballista

· Artifact Creature — Construct · Double Masters (2XM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2245

Decks Running

999

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=342

11%

16%

47%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 22

Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

2245 brought · 765 players

Brought to game

2245

Ever drawn

565

Reached battlefield

342

Still on board at game end

167

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ +9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=308) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1394).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=199).

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 +14.7pp; 95% confidence interval +9.3pp to +20.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

626 instances

3.4%

Library

26.7%

Battlefield

29.7%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 120 decks
2 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 25 decks
3 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 24 decks
4 Kilo, Apogee Mind 23 decks
5 Yuna, Grand Summoner 23 decks
6 Animar, Soul of Elements 22 decks
7 The Wise Mothman 22 decks
8 Urza, Lord High Artificer 20 decks
9 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 19 decks
10 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 15 decks

Card text

Walking Ballista

Artifact Creature — Construct

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}

: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

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Double Masters (2XM) · Rare · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.