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Darksteel Citadel

Artifact Land · Commander 2021 (C21)

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Times Brought

723

Decks Running

401

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

164 instances

0.6%

Library

73.8%

Battlefield

13.4%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 17 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 16 decks
3 Toph, the First Metalbender 14 decks
4 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 12 decks
5 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 12 decks
6 Molecule Man 11 decks
7 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 11 decks
8 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 10 decks
9 Urza, Chief Artificer 10 decks
10 Golbez, Crystal Collector 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

723 brought · 338 players

Brought to game

723

Ever drawn

149

Reached battlefield

128

Still on board at game end

121

Once cast, 95% 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.

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=113) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=446).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=18) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.1pp to +9.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=128

27%

13%

10%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 58%

1046 of 300 tracked games 99%

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. Playgroup has recorded 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.