Live Play Data

Blacksmith's Skill

· Instant · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

375

Decks Running

186

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=38

11%

74%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 38 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

375 brought · 174 players

Brought to game

375

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.5pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=33) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=252).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=32).

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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -10.5pp to +21.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

85 instances

1.2%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

42.4%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Blacksmith's Skill

Instant

Target permanent gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. If it's an artifact creature, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Common · Illustrated by Jason A. Engle

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.