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Excalibur, Sword of Eden
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Legendary Artifact — Equipment
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Assassin's Creed (ACR)
2%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
446
Decks Running
227
In Decks
1362
Decklist Inclusion
2%
Format
Final zone distribution
127 instances56.7%
Battlefield
11.8%
Graveyard
8.7%
Exile
22.8%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Captain America, First Avenger
16 decks
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2
Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man
14 decks
-
3
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER
10 decks
-
4
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
10 decks
- 5 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 9 decks
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6
Ezio Auditore da Firenze
7 decks
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7
T'Challa, the Black Panther
7 decks
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8
Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms
6 decks
-
9
Lightning, Army of One
5 decks
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10
Noctis, Heir Apparent
5 decks
The "good card" funnel
446 brought · 196 playersBrought to game
446
Ever drawn
116
Reached battlefield
89
Still on board at game end
72
Once cast, 81% 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.
≥ +11.0pp
Players who cast this card win 51% of the time (n=85) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=302).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=24) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.
Observed gap +21.9pp; 95% confidence interval +11.0pp to +32.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=89
0%
T1
1%
T2
4%
T3
12%
T4
11%
T5
60%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median
6
P25
5
· P75
7
· max
12
On curve
100%
(3 / 89 cast on T12)
Cast same turn as drawn
51%
89 of 100 times cast
89%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
Frequently Asked
Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.