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Shadowspear

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

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Times Brought

1349

Decks Running

674

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

Shadowspear

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}

: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Theros Beyond Death (THB) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

Final zone distribution

271 instances

2.6%

Library

70.5%

Battlefield

11.4%

Graveyard

3.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 42 decks
2 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 28 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 22 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 21 decks
5 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 14 decks
6 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 13 decks
7 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 13 decks
8 Captain America, First Avenger 12 decks
9 Kratos, Stoic Father 12 decks
10 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

1351 brought · 532 players

Brought to game

1351

Ever drawn

259

Reached battlefield

222

Still on board at game end

191

Once cast, 86% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=174) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=812).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=27).

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 +2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +6.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=222

24%

14%

10%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 22

On curve 24% (54 / 222 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 61%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.