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Blacksmith's Skill

· Instant · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

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Times Brought

334

Decks Running

143

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

59 instances

3.4%

Library

5.1%

Battlefield

45.8%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 11 decks
2 Feather, the Redeemed 8 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 5 decks
4 Lightning, Army of One 5 decks
5 Sergeant John Benton 4 decks
6 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 3 decks
7 Breya, Etherium Shaper 3 decks
8 Captain America, First Avenger 3 decks
9 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 3 decks
10 Winota, Joiner of Forces 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

334 brought · 130 players

Brought to game

334

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=21) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=201).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=20).

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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval -4.5pp to +17.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

26%

52%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 0% (0 / 27 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.