Live Play Data

Manifold Key

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2088

Decks Running

835

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=398

23%

10%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 23% (90 / 398 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 69%

The "good card" funnel

2088 brought · 670 players

Brought to game

2088

Ever drawn

500

Reached battlefield

398

Still on board at game end

336

Once cast, 84% 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.

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=350) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=1351).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=92).

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 +9.7pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

542 instances

3.5%

Library

62.0%

Battlefield

14.9%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 69 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 54 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 47 decks
4 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 37 decks
5 Kilo, Apogee Mind 31 decks
6 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 27 decks
7 Omnath, Locus of the Void 24 decks
8 Karn, Legacy Reforged 20 decks
9 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog 17 decks
10 Fynn, the Fangbearer 15 decks

Card text

Manifold Key

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.