Live Play Data

Darksteel Citadel

Artifact Land · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2834

Decks Running

1305

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=542

18%

13%

10%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 56%

The "good card" funnel

2834 brought · 1010 players

Brought to game

2834

Ever drawn

665

Reached battlefield

542

Still on board at game end

489

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ +1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=500) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1851).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=111).

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 +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.5pp to +9.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

749 instances

2.1%

Library

65.3%

Battlefield

15.6%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Toph, the First Metalbender 49 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 45 decks
3 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 43 decks
4 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 35 decks
5 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 34 decks
6 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 34 decks
7 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 32 decks
8 Urza, Lord High Artificer 30 decks
9 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 28 decks
10 Urza, Chief Artificer 28 decks

Card text

Darksteel Citadel

Artifact Land

Indestructible {T}

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Commander 2021 (C21) · Uncommon · Illustrated by John Avon

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.