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Bronze Guardian

· Artifact Creature — Golem · Commander 2021 (C21)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

455

Decks Running

222

In Decks

1445

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

116 instances

3.4%

Library

29.3%

Battlefield

21.6%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 88 decks
2 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 19 decks
3 Urza, Chief Artificer 12 decks
4 T'Challa, the Black Panther 10 decks
5 Brenard, Ginger Sculptor 8 decks
6 Mr. House, President and CEO 8 decks
7 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 6 decks
8 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 4 decks
9 Osgir, the Reconstructor 4 decks
10 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

455 brought · 209 players

Brought to game

455

Ever drawn

111

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=50) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=290).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 12% (n=45) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +14.9pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +27.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=57

16%

53%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 23% (9 / 57 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

57 of 100 times cast 56%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.