Live Play Data

Buster Sword

· Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2028

Decks Running

866

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=426

12%

18%

15%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 23% (53 / 426 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

2028 brought · 680 players

Brought to game

2028

Ever drawn

544

Reached battlefield

426

Still on board at game end

351

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ +3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=392) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1250).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=101).

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 +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.3pp to +13.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

593 instances

2.2%

Library

59.2%

Battlefield

16.9%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 131 decks
2 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 59 decks
3 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 33 decks
4 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 33 decks
5 Lightning, Army of One 30 decks
6 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 30 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 27 decks
8 Kratos, God of War 26 decks
9 Captain America, First Avenger 17 decks
10 Noctis, Heir Apparent 13 decks

Card text

Buster Sword

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+2. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then you may cast a spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to that damage without paying its mana cost. Equip {2}

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Mythic · Illustrated by Douzen

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.