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Hero of Bladehold

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

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Times Brought

470

Decks Running

229

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

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.

3 / 4

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

Final zone distribution

85 instances

34.1%

Battlefield

27.1%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

29.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 33 decks
2 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 33 decks
3 Zurgo Stormrender 30 decks
4 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 9 decks
5 Niko, Light of Hope 7 decks
6 Myrel, Shield of Argive 6 decks
7 Commander Mustard 5 decks
8 Commissar Severina Raine 5 decks
9 Mondrak, Glory Dominus 4 decks
10 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

470 brought · 215 players

Brought to game

470

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=42) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=289).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=21).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -4.6pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=52

12%

19%

15%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 33% (10 / 52 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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.