Live Play Data

Forebear's Blade

· Artifact — Equipment · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

131

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

13%

61%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 4% (1 / 23 cast on T3)

The "good card" funnel

131 brought · 59 players

Brought to game

131

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ -11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=21) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=86).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -11.7pp to +26.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

34 instances

2.9%

Library

61.8%

Battlefield

20.6%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 3 decks
2 Amy Rose 2 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 2 decks
4 Ayula, Queen Among Bears 2 decks
5 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 2 decks
6 Aisha of Sparks and Smoke 1 decks
7 Anep, Vizier of Hazoret 1 decks
8 Balan, Wandering Knight 1 decks
9 Bruenor Battlehammer 1 decks
10 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 1 decks

Card text

Forebear's Blade

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has vigilance and trample. Whenever equipped creature dies, attach this Equipment to target creature you control. Equip {3}

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Scott Murphy

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.