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Live Play Data

Blade Historian

{R/W} {R/W} {R/W} {R/W} · Creature — Human Cleric · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
884
Decks Running
333
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
72%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=180
1%
T1
0%
T2
4%
T3
16%
T4
23%
T5
49%
T6-9
7%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 15
On curve 21% (29 / 180 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

884 brought · 320 players
Brought to game
884
Ever drawn
250
Reached battlefield
180
Still on board at game end
115

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +11.8pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=164) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=542).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=67).

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 +19.5pp; 95% confidence interval +11.8pp to +27.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

266 instances
3.0%
Library
43.2%
Battlefield
23.7%
Graveyard
7.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Blade Historian card

Blade Historian

{R/W} {R/W} {R/W} {R/W}
Creature — Human Cleric
Attacking creatures you control have double strike.
2 / 3
Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) · Rare · Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.