Live Play Data

Bloodforged Battle-Axe

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

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

927

Decks Running

496

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

86%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=191

18%

10%

11%

10%

15%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 18% (35 / 191 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 63%

The "good card" funnel

927 brought · 447 players

Brought to game

927

Ever drawn

223

Reached battlefield

191

Still on board at game end

166

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=174) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=578).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=30).

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 +2.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +9.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

247 instances

1.2%

Library

67.2%

Battlefield

16.6%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 57 decks
2 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 52 decks
3 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 44 decks
4 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 38 decks
5 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 19 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 17 decks
7 Arahbo, Roar of the World 15 decks
8 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 12 decks
9 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 8 decks
10 Dwalin, Weaponmaster 8 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.