Live Play Data

Hardened Scales

· Enchantment · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

12%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3389

Decks Running

1563

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=591

19%

14%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 24

On curve 19% (113 / 591 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 58%

The "good card" funnel

3389 brought · 1223 players

Brought to game

3389

Ever drawn

744

Reached battlefield

591

Still on board at game end

467

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ +5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=524) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=2110).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=131).

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval +5.6pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

841 instances

3.3%

Library

55.5%

Battlefield

21.5%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 124 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 110 decks
3 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 110 decks
4 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 78 decks
5 Ms. Bumbleflower 59 decks
6 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 56 decks
7 The Swarmlord 47 decks
8 Blech, Loafing Pest 40 decks
9 The Astonishing Ant-Man 40 decks
10 Yuna, Grand Summoner 32 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.