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Ruby Medallion

· Artifact · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

1069

Decks Running

535

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

244 instances

1.2%

Library

69.7%

Battlefield

10.2%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 78 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 41 decks
3 Kratos, God of War 24 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 14 decks
5 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 14 decks
6 Smaug the Impenetrable 12 decks
7 Smaug the Magnificent 12 decks
8 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 11 decks
9 Jaws, Relentless Predator 11 decks
10 Norin the Wary 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

1069 brought · 443 players

Brought to game

1069

Ever drawn

231

Reached battlefield

189

Still on board at game end

170

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ -4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=157) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=640).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=29) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -4.5pp to +4.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=189

24%

28%

13%

19%

T6-9

T10+

Median 2 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 12

On curve 52% (52 / 189 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 57%

1444 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.