Live Play Data

Pre-War Formalwear

· Artifact — Equipment · Secret Lair Drop (SLD)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

227

Decks Running

104

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=32

13%

22%

53%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 3% (0 / 32 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

227 brought · 97 players

Brought to game

227

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=30) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=139).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=18).

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 +9.3pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +27.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

59 instances

5.1%

Library

42.4%

Battlefield

23.7%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 38 decks
2 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 9 decks
3 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 8 decks
4 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 4 decks
5 Terra, Herald of Hope 4 decks
6 Balan, Wandering Knight 3 decks
7 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 3 decks
8 The Mighty Thor, Jane Foster 3 decks
9 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 2 decks
10 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 2 decks

Card text

Pre-War Formalwear

Artifact — Equipment

When this Equipment enters, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield and attach this Equipment to it. Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has vigilance. Equip {3}

Secret Lair Drop (SLD) · Rare · Illustrated by Pauline Voss

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.