Live Play Data

Puresteel Paladin

· Creature — Human Knight · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3630

Decks Running

1494

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=557

16%

13%

12%

13%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 20% (89 / 557 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

3636 brought · 1254 players

Brought to game

3636

Ever drawn

768

Reached battlefield

557

Still on board at game end

306

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ +5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=503) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2393).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=180).

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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval +5.7pp to +14.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

856 instances

3.5%

Library

35.7%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 364 decks
2 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 91 decks
3 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 85 decks
4 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 83 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 81 decks
6 Lightning, Army of One 64 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 60 decks
8 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 60 decks
9 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 26 decks
10 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 25 decks

Card text

Puresteel Paladin

Creature — Human Knight

Whenever an Equipment you control enters, you may draw a card. Metalcraft — Equipment you control have equip {0}

as long as you control three or more artifacts.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Chan

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.