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Darksteel Plate

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

779

Decks Running

387

In Decks

2332

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Darksteel Plate

Artifact — Equipment

Indestructible Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {2}

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

Final zone distribution

185 instances

4.3%

Library

52.4%

Battlefield

14.1%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 99 decks
2 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 11 decks
3 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 9 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 8 decks
5 Tifa, Martial Artist 6 decks
6 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 5 decks
7 The Mindskinner 5 decks
8 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 4 decks
9 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole 4 decks
10 Balan, Wandering Knight 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

783 brought · 326 players

Brought to game

783

Ever drawn

166

Reached battlefield

115

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 84% 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.

≥ -5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=105) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=511).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=41) — 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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -5.0pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=115

10%

12%

15%

49%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 22% (14 / 115 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

750 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.