Live Play Data

Sapphire Medallion

· Artifact · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3547

Decks Running

1595

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=801

22%

12%

10%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 32% (178 / 801 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 54%

The "good card" funnel

3547 brought · 1179 players

Brought to game

3547

Ever drawn

1035

Reached battlefield

801

Still on board at game end

662

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ +8.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=725) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=2114).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=209).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval +8.8pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1139 instances

3.0%

Library

58.1%

Battlefield

17.5%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sapphire Medallion

Artifact

Blue spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast.

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

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.