Live Play Data

Defense of the Heart

· Enchantment · Urza's Legacy (ULG)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2258

Decks Running

925

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=385

19%

16%

47%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 27% (72 / 385 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

2262 brought · 761 players

Brought to game

2262

Ever drawn

546

Reached battlefield

385

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 25% 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.

≥ +5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=348) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1405).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=144).

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 +10.3pp; 95% confidence interval +5.1pp to +15.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

609 instances

5.4%

Library

15.9%

Battlefield

50.6%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 38 decks
2 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 34 decks
3 Jodah, the Unifier 24 decks
4 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 23 decks
5 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 22 decks
6 Fynn, the Fangbearer 19 decks
7 Princess Twilight Sparkle 19 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 18 decks
9 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 15 decks
10 Rainbow Dash 14 decks

Card text

Defense of the Heart

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls three or more creatures, sacrifice this enchantment, search your library for up to two creature cards, put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Urza's Legacy (ULG) · Rare · Illustrated by Rebecca Guay

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.