Live Play Data

Bloodforged Battle-Axe

· Artifact — Equipment · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1272

Decks Running

635

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

84%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=263

18%

11%

12%

14%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 18% (48 / 263 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 61%

The "good card" funnel

1272 brought · 562 players

Brought to game

1272

Ever drawn

313

Reached battlefield

263

Still on board at game end

223

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=242) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=789).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=45).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +7.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

349 instances

2.6%

Library

63.9%

Battlefield

18.9%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 76 decks
2 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 71 decks
3 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 59 decks
4 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 48 decks
5 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 23 decks
6 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 22 decks
7 Arahbo, Roar of the World 21 decks
8 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 13 decks
9 Dwalin, Weaponmaster 10 decks
10 Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer 10 decks

Card text

Bloodforged Battle-Axe

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this Equipment. Equip {2}

March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Alayna Danner

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.