Live Play Data

Blade of Selves

· Artifact — Equipment · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

667

Decks Running

323

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=99

16%

10%

15%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 20% (16 / 99 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

667 brought · 286 players

Brought to game

667

Ever drawn

142

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=91) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=449).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=38).

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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

156 instances

3.8%

Library

48.7%

Battlefield

18.6%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Deadpool, Trading Card 38 decks
2 Zurgo Stormrender 17 decks
3 Kratos, Stoic Father 12 decks
4 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 8 decks
5 Kardur, Doomscourge 8 decks
6 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 8 decks
7 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 7 decks
8 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 7 decks
9 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 7 decks
10 Noctis, Heir Apparent 7 decks

Card text

Blade of Selves

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Equip {4}

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lie Setiawan

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.