Live Play Data

Shield Broker

· Creature — Octopus Advisor · New Capenna Commander (NCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

206

Decks Running

115

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

62%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 17

On curve 12% (2 / 34 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

206 brought · 111 players

Brought to game

206

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=29) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=130).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 9% (n=17).

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 +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval -8.2pp to +23.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances

28.6%

Battlefield

35.7%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

32.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Shield Broker

Creature — Octopus Advisor

When this creature enters, put a shield counter on target noncommander creature you don't control. You gain control of that creature for as long as it has a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

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New Capenna Commander (NCC) · 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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.