Live Play Data

Astor, Bearer of Blades

· Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · Dominaria United (DMU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

141

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=25

12%

28%

40%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 20% (2 / 25 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

141 brought · 69 players

Brought to game

141

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -15.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=19) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=93).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval -15.2pp to +29.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

32 instances

25.0%

Battlefield

34.4%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

28.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 15 decks
2 Bruenor Battlehammer 5 decks
3 Captain America, First Avenger 5 decks
4 Kolodin, Triumph Caster 5 decks
5 Lightning, Army of One 4 decks
6 Nahiri, Forged in Fury 3 decks
7 Toph, the First Metalbender 3 decks
8 Zurgo Helmsmasher 3 decks
9 Amy Rose 2 decks
10 Dwalin, Weaponmaster 2 decks

Card text

Astor, Bearer of Blades

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.