Live Play Data

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· Artifact · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1145

Decks Running

477

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=232

22%

10%

11%

29%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 22% (50 / 232 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 70%

The "good card" funnel

1145 brought · 394 players

Brought to game

1145

Ever drawn

291

Reached battlefield

232

Still on board at game end

193

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ +3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=208) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=745).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=56).

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 +10.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.4pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

314 instances

4.1%

Library

61.5%

Battlefield

15.3%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 41 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 34 decks
3 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 25 decks
4 Urza, Lord High Artificer 23 decks
5 Kilo, Apogee Mind 20 decks
6 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 15 decks
7 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 11 decks
8 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 10 decks
9 Karn, Legacy Reforged 9 decks
10 Fynn, the Fangbearer 8 decks

Card text

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Artifact

: Untap another target artifact. {3}

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Gabor Szikszai

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.