Live Play Data

Bronze Guardian

· Artifact Creature — Golem · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

899

Decks Running

409

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=103

15%

55%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 24% (15 / 103 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

899 brought · 381 players

Brought to game

899

Ever drawn

200

Reached battlefield

103

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ +6.7pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=93) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=587).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=80).

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 +15.6pp; 95% confidence interval +6.7pp to +24.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

210 instances

3.3%

Library

30.0%

Battlefield

20.5%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 147 decks
2 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 33 decks
3 Urza, Chief Artificer 27 decks
4 T'Challa, the Black Panther 23 decks
5 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 15 decks
6 Brenard, Ginger Sculptor 14 decks
7 Osgir, the Reconstructor 11 decks
8 Mr. House, President and CEO 9 decks
9 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 8 decks
10 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 7 decks

Card text

Bronze Guardian

Artifact Creature — Golem

Double strike Ward {2}

(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}

.) Other artifacts you control have ward {2}

. Bronze Guardian's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control.

* / 5

Commander 2021 (C21) · Rare · Illustrated by Grzegorz Rutkowski

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.