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Excalibur, Sword of Eden

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

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Times Brought

427

Decks Running

225

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

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

Final zone distribution

95 instances

4.2%

Library

52.6%

Battlefield

9.5%

Graveyard

2.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 20 decks
2 Captain America, First Avenger 17 decks
3 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 17 decks
4 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 13 decks
5 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 10 decks
6 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 7 decks
7 Noctis, Heir Apparent 6 decks
8 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation 5 decks
9 Lightning, Army of One 5 decks
10 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

427 brought · 197 players

Brought to game

427

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 89% 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.

≥ -3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=47) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=233).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=22) — 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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -3.2pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=56

18%

13%

68%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 98% (0 / 56 cast on T12) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

56 of 100 times cast 56%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.