Live Play Data

Walking Ballista

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

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Times Brought

4477

Decks Running

1758

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=677

11%

17%

51%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 22

Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

4478 brought · 1287 players

Brought to game

4478

Ever drawn

1127

Reached battlefield

677

Still on board at game end

339

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ +12.9pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=614) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2767).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=397).

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 +16.8pp; 95% confidence interval +12.9pp to +20.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1247 instances

2.9%

Library

27.2%

Battlefield

29.9%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 191 decks
2 Animar, Soul of Elements 42 decks
3 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 38 decks
4 The Wise Mothman 36 decks
5 Yuna, Grand Summoner 36 decks
6 Urza, Lord High Artificer 34 decks
7 Kilo, Apogee Mind 32 decks
8 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 31 decks
9 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 30 decks
10 Kwia Vigorbloom 27 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 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.