Live Play Data

Armor of Shadows

· Instant · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

209

Decks Running

105

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=26

12%

54%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 4% (1 / 26 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 15%

The "good card" funnel

209 brought · 103 players

Brought to game

209

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=24) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=133).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=18).

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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval -8.4pp to +28.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

52 instances

3.8%

Library

1.9%

Battlefield

53.8%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 5 decks
2 Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker 5 decks
3 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 5 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 4 decks
5 Super Shredder 4 decks
6 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 3 decks
7 Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer 3 decks
8 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death 2 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
10 Horobi, Death's Wail 2 decks

Card text

Armor of Shadows

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Common · Illustrated by Craig J Spearing

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.