Live Play Data

Hero of Bladehold

· Creature — Human Knight · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

619

Decks Running

321

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=62

23%

21%

42%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 26

On curve 24% (14 / 62 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

619 brought · 301 players

Brought to game

619

Ever drawn

133

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=58) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=416).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=64).

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 +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +21.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

142 instances

4.2%

Library

21.1%

Battlefield

30.3%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zurgo Stormrender 59 decks
2 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 49 decks
3 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 43 decks
4 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 18 decks
5 Niko, Light of Hope 17 decks
6 Myrel, Shield of Argive 7 decks
7 Commander Mustard 6 decks
8 Iroas, God of Victory 6 decks
9 Darien, King of Kjeldor 5 decks
10 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 5 decks

Card text

Hero of Bladehold

Creature — Human Knight

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.) Whenever this creature attacks, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens that are tapped and attacking.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Steven Belledin

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.