Live Play Data

Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment // Sorcery — Adventure · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

486

Decks Running

192

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=96

10%

13%

16%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 7% (6 / 96 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

488 brought · 176 players

Brought to game

488

Ever drawn

138

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ +7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=88) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=302).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=40).

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 +17.4pp; 95% confidence interval +7.1pp to +27.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

153 instances

3.3%

Library

37.9%

Battlefield

20.3%

Graveyard

13.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Glamdring, Foe-hammer

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {X}

less to cast, where X is equipped creature's power. Equip {2}

Gleam of Death

Sorcery — Adventure

Mill six cards, then put all instant and sorcery cards from among them into your hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the artifact later from exile.)

The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Cold

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.