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Buster Sword

· Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

300

Decks Running

148

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.

Final zone distribution

77 instances

72.7%

Battlefield

7.8%

Graveyard

1.3%

Exile

18.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 22 decks
2 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 13 decks
3 Lightning, Army of One 7 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 6 decks
5 Noctis, Heir Apparent 6 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 5 decks
7 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 5 decks
8 Amy Rose 4 decks
9 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 4 decks
10 Kratos, God of War 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

300 brought · 119 players

Brought to game

300

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=54) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=189).

Observed gap +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=63

13%

27%

13%

17%

24%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 43% (17 / 63 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

63 of 100 times cast 63%

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.