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Captain America's Shield

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

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Times Brought

947

Decks Running

395

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

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

Final zone distribution

188 instances

2.1%

Library

76.1%

Battlefield

6.9%

Graveyard

1.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 35 decks
2 Captain America, Team Leader 31 decks
3 Captain America, First Avenger 25 decks
4 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 21 decks
5 Felothar the Steadfast 16 decks
6 Doran, Besieged by Time 13 decks
7 Arcades, the Strategist 12 decks
8 Blor the Impervious 8 decks
9 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 7 decks
10 Doran, the Siege Tower 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

947 brought · 347 players

Brought to game

947

Ever drawn

182

Reached battlefield

154

Still on board at game end

143

Once cast, 93% 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.

≥ -6.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=122) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=592).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=19).

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 -1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.4pp to +3.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=154

14%

21%

12%

13%

24%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 19

On curve 35% (32 / 154 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

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.