Live Play Data

Excalibur II

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

437

Decks Running

197

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=83

23%

18%

12%

10%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 23% (19 / 83 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 61%

The "good card" funnel

437 brought · 188 players

Brought to game

437

Ever drawn

104

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=75) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=283).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=17).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

110 instances

5.5%

Library

54.5%

Battlefield

22.7%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hope Estheim 22 decks
2 Kwia Vigorbloom 12 decks
3 Aerith Gainsborough 9 decks
4 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 7 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 7 decks
6 Whtz, the Bibliophile 6 decks
7 Aerith, Last Ancient 5 decks
8 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 5 decks
9 Adelbert Steiner 4 decks
10 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 4 decks

Card text

Excalibur II

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Whenever you gain life, put a charge counter on Excalibur II. Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Excalibur II. Equip {3}

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Russell Dongjun Lu

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.