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Dragonfire Blade

· Artifact — Equipment · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

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Times Brought

446

Decks Running

224

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

100 instances

1.0%

Library

74.0%

Battlefield

11.0%

Graveyard

14.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 36 decks
2 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 19 decks
3 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 7 decks
4 Lightning, Army of One 6 decks
5 The Ur-Dragon 6 decks
6 Cloud, Planet's Champion 5 decks
7 Amy Rose 4 decks
8 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 4 decks
9 Belisarius Cawl 4 decks
10 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

446 brought · 204 players

Brought to game

446

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 94% 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.

≥ +1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=61) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=236).

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 +8.4pp; 95% confidence interval +1.6pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=79

25%

19%

11%

13%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 25% (20 / 79 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 66%

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.