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Darksteel Plate

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

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Times Brought

1095

Decks Running

485

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

247 instances

2.0%

Library

59.5%

Battlefield

11.7%

Graveyard

0.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 145 decks
2 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 18 decks
3 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 8 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 6 decks
5 Captain America, First Avenger 6 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 6 decks
7 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 6 decks
8 Kaalia of the Vast 6 decks
9 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 5 decks
10 Kratos, God of War 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

1097 brought · 413 players

Brought to game

1097

Ever drawn

228

Reached battlefield

158

Still on board at game end

147

Once cast, 93% 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.

≥ -5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=135) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=672).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=52).

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 -0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -5.4pp to +3.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=158

12%

16%

17%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 20% (19 / 158 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.