Live Play Data

Hardened Scales

· Enchantment · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

12%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4884

Decks Running

2191

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=850

20%

13%

10%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 24

On curve 20% (166 / 850 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 59%

The "good card" funnel

4884 brought · 1699 players

Brought to game

4884

Ever drawn

1059

Reached battlefield

850

Still on board at game end

666

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=766) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=3170).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=182).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval +4.3pp to +10.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1183 instances

3.4%

Library

56.3%

Battlefield

21.4%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Wise Mothman 159 decks
2 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 154 decks
3 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 152 decks
4 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 107 decks
5 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 68 decks
6 Ms. Bumbleflower 68 decks
7 The Swarmlord 65 decks
8 Blech, Loafing Pest 56 decks
9 The Astonishing Ant-Man 53 decks
10 Yuna, Grand Summoner 51 decks

Card text

Hardened Scales

Enchantment

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Mark Winters

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.