Live Play Data

Mirror Shield

· Artifact — Equipment · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

156

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=25

16%

20%

36%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 8% (2 / 25 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

157 brought · 79 players

Brought to game

157

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ -18.9pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=24) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=103).

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 -4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -18.9pp to +9.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

43 instances

2.3%

Library

44.2%

Battlefield

37.2%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Arcades, the Strategist 4 decks
2 Arwen, Weaver of Hope 2 decks
3 Freya Crescent 2 decks
4 Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms 2 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 2 decks
6 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar 1 decks
7 Alela, Artful Provocateur 1 decks
8 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate 1 decks
9 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 1 decks
10 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 1 decks

Card text

Mirror Shield

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has hexproof and "Whenever a creature with deathtouch blocks or becomes blocked by this creature, destroy that creature." Equip {2}

(

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

Theros Beyond Death (THB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott

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.