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Buster Sword

· Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

389

Decks Running

185

In Decks

1076

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

126 instances

2.4%

Library

58.7%

Battlefield

17.5%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 27 decks
2 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 14 decks
3 Lightning, Army of One 11 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 9 decks
5 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 8 decks
6 Captain America, First Avenger 5 decks
7 Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms 5 decks
8 Kratos, God of War 5 decks
9 Tifa, Martial Artist 5 decks
10 Noctis, Heir Apparent 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

389 brought · 156 players

Brought to game

389

Ever drawn

119

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ -11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=87) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=246).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 6% (n=24) — 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 -2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -11.7pp to +7.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=91

11%

25%

16%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 21% (10 / 91 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

91 of 100 times cast 91%

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.