Live Play Data

Darksteel Citadel

Artifact Land · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4449

Decks Running

1977

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=880

16%

13%

12%

10%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 57%

The "good card" funnel

4449 brought · 1472 players

Brought to game

4449

Ever drawn

1081

Reached battlefield

880

Still on board at game end

782

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.

≥ +1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=802) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2838).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=174).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1214 instances

2.6%

Library

64.4%

Battlefield

16.2%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sai, Master Thopterist 101 decks
2 Toph, the First Metalbender 63 decks
3 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 60 decks
4 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 58 decks
5 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 49 decks
6 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 49 decks
7 Urza, Lord High Artificer 45 decks
8 Urza, Chief Artificer 43 decks
9 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 42 decks
10 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 39 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 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.