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Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms

Legendary Creature — God // Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Kaldheim (KHM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

335

Decks Running

138

In Decks

834

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Halvar, God of Battle

Legendary Creature — God

Creatures you control that are enchanted or equipped have double strike. At the beginning of each combat, you may attach target Aura or Equipment attached to a creature you control to target creature you control.

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Sword of the Realms

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has vigilance. Whenever equipped creature dies, return it to its owner's hand. Equip {1}

Kaldheim (KHM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lie Setiawan

Final zone distribution

88 instances

3.4%

Library

38.6%

Battlefield

18.2%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 22 decks
2 Lightning, Army of One 15 decks
3 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 12 decks
4 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 8 decks
5 Kratos, Stoic Father 8 decks
6 Captain America, First Avenger 7 decks
7 Amy Rose 4 decks
8 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 4 decks
9 Noctis, Heir Apparent 4 decks
10 Bruenor Battlehammer 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

335 brought · 136 players

Brought to game

335

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -25.4pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=48) , vs 34% when it never left the library (n=203).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=27) — 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 -13.4pp; 95% confidence interval -25.4pp to -1.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=52

12%

27%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 21% (6 / 52 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

52 of 100 times cast 52%

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.