Live Play Data

Captain America's Shield

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1170

Decks Running

492

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=207

12%

10%

12%

14%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 18% (25 / 207 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

1170 brought · 432 players

Brought to game

1170

Ever drawn

269

Reached battlefield

207

Still on board at game end

178

Once cast, 86% 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.

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=192) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=761).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=55).

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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

296 instances

1.7%

Library

60.1%

Battlefield

11.8%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 36 decks
2 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 32 decks
3 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 27 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 22 decks
5 Felothar the Steadfast 21 decks
6 Arcades, the Strategist 20 decks
7 Doran, Besieged by Time 14 decks
8 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 13 decks
9 Blor the Impervious 12 decks
10 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 12 decks

Card text

Captain America's Shield

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Indestructible Equipped creature gets +0/+8 and has vigilance. Whenever equipped creature attacks, tap target creature defending player controls. Equip {2}

Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Rare · Illustrated by Eglė Mosakaitė

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.