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Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms

Legendary Creature — God // Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Kaldheim (KHM)
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Times Brought
634
Decks Running
277
In Decks
—
Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text
Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms card Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms back face

Halvar, God of Battle

{2} {W} {W}
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.
4 / 4

Sword of the Realms

{1} {W}
Legendary Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has vigilance. Whenever equipped creature dies, return it to its owner's hand. Equip {1}{W}
Kaldheim (KHM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lie Setiawan

Final zone distribution

122 instances
4.1%
Library
47.5%
Battlefield
17.2%
Graveyard
2.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

634 brought · 277 players
Brought to game
634
Ever drawn
117
Reached battlefield
79
Still on board at game end
58

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=76) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=461).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=34).

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 -0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +5.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=80
1%
T1
4%
T2
6%
T3
19%
T4
21%
T5
44%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 11
On curve 30% (15 / 80 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.