Live Play Data

Blade of Selves

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1507

Decks Running

705

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=246

15%

10%

17%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 18% (37 / 246 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

1507 brought · 622 players

Brought to game

1507

Ever drawn

340

Reached battlefield

246

Still on board at game end

185

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=219) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1007).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=84).

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 -1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +4.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

372 instances

3.0%

Library

49.7%

Battlefield

22.6%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Deadpool, Trading Card 71 decks
2 Zurgo Stormrender 35 decks
3 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 28 decks
4 Aerid Konstrari 24 decks
5 Kratos, Stoic Father 17 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 16 decks
7 Kardur, Doomscourge 13 decks
8 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 12 decks
9 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 11 decks
10 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 11 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.