Live Play Data

Darksteel Plate

· Artifact — Equipment · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1881

Decks Running

872

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=302

10%

11%

14%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 17% (31 / 302 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

1887 brought · 723 players

Brought to game

1887

Ever drawn

428

Reached battlefield

302

Still on board at game end

252

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=271) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1215).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=102).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +9.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

471 instances

3.2%

Library

53.5%

Battlefield

14.9%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 196 decks
2 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 23 decks
3 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 16 decks
4 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 13 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 12 decks
6 Tifa, Martial Artist 10 decks
7 Kaalia of the Vast 9 decks
8 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 9 decks
9 The Mindskinner 9 decks
10 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 8 decks

Card text

Darksteel Plate

Artifact — Equipment

Indestructible Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {2}

Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Rare · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.