Live Play Data

Paladin's Arms

· Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

126

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

126 brought · 62 players

Brought to game

126

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -18.8pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=18) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=87).

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 +0.1pp; 95% confidence interval -18.8pp to +19.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

34 instances

55.9%

Battlefield

8.8%

Graveyard

35.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 10 decks
2 Cloud, Planet's Champion 5 decks
3 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn 4 decks
4 Amy Rose 3 decks
5 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 3 decks
6 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light 3 decks
7 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 3 decks
8 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 2 decks
9 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 2 decks
10 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 2 decks

Card text

Paladin's Arms

Artifact — Equipment

Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +2/+1, has ward {1}

, and is a Knight in addition to its other types. Lightbringer and Hero's Shield — Equip {4}

(

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

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Common · Illustrated by Immanuela Crovius

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.