collections_bookmark Part of Final Fantasy
Bronze Guardian card art
Card Preview

Bronze Guardian

{4} {W} · Artifact Creature — Golem · Commander 2021 (C21)
Times Brought
684
Decks Running
336
In Decks
—
Decklist Inclusion
—
Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text
Bronze Guardian card

Bronze Guardian

{4} {W}
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

145 instances
31.7%
Battlefield
22.1%
Graveyard
4.8%
Exile
41.4%
Hand

The "good card" funnel

684 brought · 325 players
Brought to game
684
Ever drawn
133
Reached battlefield
74
Still on board at game end
46

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=64) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=416).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=46).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=74
3%
T1
0%
T2
1%
T3
15%
T4
16%
T5
55%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11
On curve 35% (12 / 74 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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.