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Walking Ballista

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

758

Decks Running

395

In Decks

2952

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

195 instances

2.1%

Library

28.7%

Battlefield

30.8%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 55 decks
2 Kilo, Apogee Mind 13 decks
3 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 13 decks
4 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 12 decks
5 The Wise Mothman 10 decks
6 Urza, Lord High Artificer 9 decks
7 Yuna, Grand Summoner 8 decks
8 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 7 decks
9 Animar, Soul of Elements 5 decks
10 Breena, the Demagogue 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

758 brought · 322 players

Brought to game

758

Ever drawn

178

Reached battlefield

110

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=98) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=503).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=59) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +15.0pp; 95% confidence interval +5.5pp to +24.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=110

11%

15%

49%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 36%

729 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.