Live Play Data

Infantry Shield

· Artifact — Equipment · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

340

Decks Running

187

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50

14%

26%

44%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 6% (1 / 50 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

340 brought · 177 players

Brought to game

340

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 86% 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.

≥ -9.5pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=44) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=227).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=17).

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 -9.5pp to +16.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

82 instances

2.4%

Library

52.4%

Battlefield

19.5%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Infantry Shield

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has menace and mobilize X, where X is its power. (Whenever it attacks, create X tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.) Equip {2}

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Xabi Gaztelua

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.