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Blade of Selves

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

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Times Brought

807

Decks Running

397

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

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

Final zone distribution

155 instances

0.6%

Library

49.7%

Battlefield

15.5%

Graveyard

0.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Deadpool, Trading Card 38 decks
2 Aerid Konstrari 25 decks
3 Zurgo Stormrender 23 decks
4 Kratos, Stoic Father 16 decks
5 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 16 decks
6 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 14 decks
7 Noctis, Heir Apparent 9 decks
8 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 7 decks
9 Katara, the Fearless 6 decks
10 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

807 brought · 354 players

Brought to game

807

Ever drawn

148

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 89% 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.

≥ -12.8pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=65) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=486).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=50).

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 -6.4pp; 95% confidence interval -12.8pp to +0.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=87

11%

16%

15%

10%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 23% (10 / 87 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

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.