Live Play Data

Dragonfire Blade

· Artifact — Equipment · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

776

Decks Running

339

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

83%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=151

23%

13%

11%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 23% (34 / 151 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 58%

The "good card" funnel

776 brought · 300 players

Brought to game

776

Ever drawn

182

Reached battlefield

151

Still on board at game end

111

Once cast, 74% 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 30% of the time (n=142) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=514).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=28).

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 +2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -5.0pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

199 instances

6.5%

Library

55.8%

Battlefield

19.6%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 57 decks
2 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 42 decks
3 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 10 decks
4 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 8 decks
5 Eshki, Temur's Roar 7 decks
6 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 7 decks
7 Lightning, Army of One 7 decks
8 Aragorn, the Uniter 6 decks
9 Belisarius Cawl 5 decks
10 Captain America, First Avenger 4 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.