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Ruby Medallion

· Artifact · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

2308

Decks Running

1093

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Card text

Ruby Medallion

Artifact

Red spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

Final zone distribution

500 instances

0.8%

Library

72.2%

Battlefield

11.0%

Graveyard

2.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 158 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 72 decks
3 Kratos, God of War 50 decks
4 Smaug the Magnificent 32 decks
5 Norin the Wary 23 decks
6 Smaug the Impenetrable 23 decks
7 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 22 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 20 decks
9 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 19 decks
10 Jaws, Relentless Predator 18 decks

The "good card" funnel

2308 brought · 864 players

Brought to game

2308

Ever drawn

472

Reached battlefield

398

Still on board at game end

361

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=309) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1318).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=52).

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 +1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +4.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=398

23%

27%

11%

21%

T6-9

T10+

Median 2.5 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 45

On curve 50% (106 / 398 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 59%

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.