Live Play Data

Barrow-Blade

· Artifact — Equipment · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

194

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

93%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

27%

16%

22%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 27% (10 / 37 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 62%

The "good card" funnel

194 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

194

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -14.8pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=35) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=136).

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 -2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -14.8pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

43 instances

2.3%

Library

60.5%

Battlefield

30.2%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Barrow-Blade

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, that creature loses all abilities until end of turn. Equip {1}

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Alexander Mokhov

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.