Live Play Data

Baird, Steward of Argive

· Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

413

Decks Running

247

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=83

17%

42%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 23% (14 / 83 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

413 brought · 235 players

Brought to game

413

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=77) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=253).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=29).

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 +1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.0pp to +10.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

121 instances

3.3%

Library

35.5%

Battlefield

33.1%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Baird, Steward of Argive

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1}

for each of those creatures.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Christine Choi

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.