Live Play Data

Kusari-Gama

· Artifact — Equipment · Champions of Kamigawa (CHK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

102

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

15%

10%

40%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 15% (2 / 20 cast on T3)

The "good card" funnel

102 brought · 36 players

Brought to game

102

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -21.0pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=18) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=63).

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 -1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -21.0pp to +18.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

32 instances

3.1%

Library

46.9%

Battlefield

15.6%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Maarika, Brutal Gladiator 9 decks
2 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 3 decks
3 Captain America, First Avenger 2 decks
4 Dwalin, Weaponmaster 2 decks
5 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 2 decks
6 Legolas, Master Archer 2 decks
7 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks
8 Balan, Wandering Knight 1 decks
9 Bruenor Battlehammer 1 decks
10 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 1 decks

Card text

Kusari-Gama

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has " {2}

: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn." Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a blocking creature, this Equipment deals that much damage to each other creature defending player controls. Equip {3}

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Champions of Kamigawa (CHK) · Rare · Illustrated by Tomas Giorello

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.