Live Play Data

Bronze Guardian

· Artifact Creature — Golem · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

679

Decks Running

320

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=83

13%

55%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 22% (11 / 83 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

679 brought · 297 players

Brought to game

679

Ever drawn

155

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.

≥ +5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=77) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=445).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 12% (n=61).

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 +15.1pp; 95% confidence interval +5.3pp to +24.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

164 instances

3.0%

Library

30.5%

Battlefield

20.7%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 117 decks
2 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 28 decks
3 Urza, Chief Artificer 20 decks
4 T'Challa, the Black Panther 15 decks
5 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 13 decks
6 Brenard, Ginger Sculptor 12 decks
7 Mr. House, President and CEO 8 decks
8 Osgir, the Reconstructor 8 decks
9 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 6 decks
10 Alibou, Ancient Witness 5 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.

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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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.