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Buster Sword

· Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

1048

Decks Running

511

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

256 instances

1.6%

Library

69.9%

Battlefield

9.4%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 71 decks
2 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 29 decks
3 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 28 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 24 decks
5 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 19 decks
6 Captain America, First Avenger 17 decks
7 Lightning, Army of One 16 decks
8 Kratos, God of War 14 decks
9 Noctis, Heir Apparent 13 decks
10 Amy Rose 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1048 brought · 428 players

Brought to game

1048

Ever drawn

240

Reached battlefield

202

Still on board at game end

179

Once cast, 89% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=151) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=593).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=29).

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 +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +7.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=202

12%

21%

17%

13%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 38% (43 / 202 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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.