Live Play Data

Excalibur, Sword of Eden

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Assassin's Creed (ACR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2142

Decks Running

907

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=399

11%

62%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 100

On curve 97% (8 / 399 cast on T12) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

2142 brought · 753 players

Brought to game

2142

Ever drawn

565

Reached battlefield

399

Still on board at game end

313

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +13.2pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=366) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1350).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=144).

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 +18.5pp; 95% confidence interval +13.2pp to +23.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

616 instances

2.4%

Library

50.8%

Battlefield

15.9%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 87 decks
2 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 54 decks
3 Captain America, First Avenger 50 decks
4 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 42 decks
5 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 35 decks
6 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 33 decks
7 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 32 decks
8 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 22 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 16 decks
10 T'Challa, the Black Panther 15 decks

Card text

Excalibur, Sword of Eden

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

This spell costs {X}

less to cast, where X is the total mana value of historic permanents you control. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) Equipped creature gets +10/+0 and has vigilance. Equip legendary creature {2}

Assassin's Creed (ACR) · Rare · Illustrated by Thanh Tuấn

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.