Live Play Data

Walking Ballista

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3219

Decks Running

1350

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=502

12%

16%

49%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 22

Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

3219 brought · 1021 players

Brought to game

3219

Ever drawn

824

Reached battlefield

502

Still on board at game end

255

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.

≥ +12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=455) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1966).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=285).

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 +12.3pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

913 instances

3.2%

Library

27.9%

Battlefield

29.0%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 150 decks
2 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 32 decks
3 Yuna, Grand Summoner 31 decks
4 Animar, Soul of Elements 30 decks
5 Kilo, Apogee Mind 29 decks
6 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 29 decks
7 The Wise Mothman 28 decks
8 Urza, Lord High Artificer 27 decks
9 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 26 decks
10 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 20 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.