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Live Play Data

Astor, Bearer of Blades

{2} {R} {W} · Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · Dominaria United (DMU)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
301
Decks Running
107
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
63%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=49
0%
T1
2%
T2
6%
T3
14%
T4
27%
T5
45%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11
On curve 22% (7 / 49 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

301 brought · 111 players
Brought to game
301
Ever drawn
72
Reached battlefield
45
Still on board at game end
23

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.

≥ -17.1pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=38) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=200).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=25).

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 -2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -17.1pp to +11.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

76 instances
3.9%
Library
30.3%
Battlefield
30.3%
Graveyard
6.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Astor, Bearer of Blades card

Astor, Bearer of Blades

{2} {R} {W}
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
When Astor enters, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal an Equipment or Vehicle card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Equipment you control have equip {1}. Vehicles you control have crew 1.
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Dominaria United (DMU) · Rare · Illustrated by Josh Hass

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.