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Live Play Data

Dragonfire Blade

{1} · Artifact — Equipment · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
996
Decks Running
426
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
85%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=191
21%
T1
13%
T2
8%
T3
4%
T4
12%
T5
32%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 14
On curve 21% (40 / 191 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 56%

The "good card" funnel

996 brought · 374 players
Brought to game
996
Ever drawn
226
Reached battlefield
191
Still on board at game end
143

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=178) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=662).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=32).

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 +6.4pp; 95% confidence interval -0.7pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

249 instances
5.2%
Library
57.4%
Battlefield
19.7%
Graveyard
8.4%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Dragonfire Blade card

Dragonfire Blade

{1}
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 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.