Live Play Data

Puresteel Paladin

· Creature — Human Knight · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2777

Decks Running

1202

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=429

15%

13%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 19% (66 / 429 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

2783 brought · 1017 players

Brought to game

2783

Ever drawn

598

Reached battlefield

429

Still on board at game end

234

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=386) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1804).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=140).

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 +10.5pp; 95% confidence interval +5.7pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

669 instances

3.7%

Library

35.0%

Battlefield

32.9%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 291 decks
2 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 66 decks
3 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 65 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 63 decks
5 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 59 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 53 decks
7 Lightning, Army of One 53 decks
8 Captain America, First Avenger 49 decks
9 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 22 decks
10 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 22 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 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.