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Pre-War Formalwear

· Artifact — Equipment · Secret Lair Drop (SLD)

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Times Brought

330

Decks Running

132

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

76 instances

2.6%

Library

50.0%

Battlefield

11.8%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 60 decks
2 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 13 decks
3 Captain America, First Avenger 6 decks
4 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 6 decks
5 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 5 decks
6 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 5 decks
7 Terra, Herald of Hope 3 decks
8 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind 2 decks
9 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 2 decks
10 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

330 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

330

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=26) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=169).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=15).

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 +10.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +20.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=47

11%

21%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 15% (5 / 47 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.