Live Play Data

Manifold Key

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1622

Decks Running

665

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=313

24%

10%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 24% (74 / 313 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 70%

The "good card" funnel

1622 brought · 541 players

Brought to game

1622

Ever drawn

396

Reached battlefield

313

Still on board at game end

263

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.

≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=277) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1040).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=75).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

428 instances

3.3%

Library

61.4%

Battlefield

15.2%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 59 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 46 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 33 decks
4 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 31 decks
5 Kilo, Apogee Mind 28 decks
6 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 19 decks
7 Karn, Legacy Reforged 15 decks
8 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog 14 decks
9 Fynn, the Fangbearer 12 decks
10 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 11 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.