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Astor, Bearer of Blades

{2} {R} {W} · Legendary Creature — Human Warrior · Dominaria United (DMU)
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Times Brought
172
Decks Running
91
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

34 instances
2.9%
Library
44.1%
Battlefield
23.5%
Graveyard
5.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

172 brought · 96 players
Brought to game
172
Ever drawn
33
Reached battlefield
21
Still on board at game end
15

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=16) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=106).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30
0%
T1
7%
T2
20%
T3
20%
T4
10%
T5
40%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13
On curve 47% (6 / 30 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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.