Live Play Data

Dragonfire Blade

· Artifact — Equipment · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

272

Decks Running

147

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=52

23%

10%

15%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 23% (12 / 52 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 67%

The "good card" funnel

272 brought · 132 players

Brought to game

272

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ -6.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=48) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=177).

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 +6.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.7pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

69 instances

5.8%

Library

59.4%

Battlefield

14.5%

Graveyard

11.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 23 decks
2 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 17 decks
3 Lightning, Army of One 6 decks
4 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 4 decks
5 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 4 decks
6 Aragorn, the Uniter 3 decks
7 Eshki Dragonclaw 3 decks
8 Fire Lord Zuko 3 decks
9 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 3 decks
10 The Ur-Dragon 3 decks

Card text

Dragonfire Blade

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has hexproof from monocolored. Equip {4}

. This ability costs {1}

less to activate for each color of the creature it targets.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Rare · Illustrated by Clint Lockwood

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.