Live Play Data

Puresteel Paladin

· Creature — Human Knight · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2057

Decks Running

925

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=328

15%

13%

14%

13%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 19% (48 / 328 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

2060 brought · 789 players

Brought to game

2060

Ever drawn

445

Reached battlefield

328

Still on board at game end

171

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ +4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=299) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1341).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=102).

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 +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval +4.1pp to +14.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

494 instances

4.0%

Library

34.6%

Battlefield

33.2%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 229 decks
2 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 54 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 49 decks
4 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 46 decks
5 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 44 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 42 decks
7 Lightning, Army of One 42 decks
8 Captain America, First Avenger 38 decks
9 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 16 decks
10 Noctis, Heir Apparent 16 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.