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Hardened Scales

· Enchantment · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

4249

Decks Running

1943

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

889 instances

2.0%

Library

68.4%

Battlefield

11.0%

Graveyard

3.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 187 decks
2 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 170 decks
3 The Wise Mothman 126 decks
4 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 110 decks
5 The Swarmlord 70 decks
6 Blech, Loafing Pest 47 decks
7 Ms. Bumbleflower 45 decks
8 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 42 decks
9 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 33 decks
10 Leonardo, the Balance 33 decks

The "good card" funnel

4252 brought · 1492 players

Brought to game

4252

Ever drawn

836

Reached battlefield

687

Still on board at game end

608

Once cast, 89% 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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=505) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2417).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=109).

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 +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +3.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=687

24%

14%

10%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 18

On curve 24% (168 / 687 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 64%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.