Live Play Data

Dragonfire Blade

· Artifact — Equipment · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

577

Decks Running

269

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

83%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=107

21%

12%

11%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 21% (22 / 107 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 60%

The "good card" funnel

577 brought · 237 players

Brought to game

577

Ever drawn

129

Reached battlefield

107

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=100) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=388).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=20).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +15.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

144 instances

7.6%

Library

50.7%

Battlefield

21.5%

Graveyard

11.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.