Live Play Data

Aura Shards

· Enchantment · Commander 2011 (CMD)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1536

Decks Running

646

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=253

17%

16%

14%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 23% (43 / 253 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

1538 brought · 555 players

Brought to game

1538

Ever drawn

340

Reached battlefield

253

Still on board at game end

151

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=229) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1000).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=77).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

386 instances

3.1%

Library

39.1%

Battlefield

30.6%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Aura Shards

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Commander 2011 (CMD) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Ron Spencer

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.