Live Play Data

Smitten Swordmaster // Curry Favor

· Creature — Human Knight // Sorcery — Adventure · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

257

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46

15%

50%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 11% (3 / 46 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

The "good card" funnel

257 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

257

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -14.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=41) , vs 33% when it never left the library (n=163).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=15).

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 +0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -14.9pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

74 instances

1.4%

Library

36.5%

Battlefield

32.4%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 55 decks
2 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 7 decks
3 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 2 decks
4 Aryel, Knight of Windgrace 1 decks
5 Ayara, First of Locthwain 1 decks
6 Bartolomé del Presidio 1 decks
7 Elenda and Azor 1 decks
8 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge 1 decks
9 Jace, Multiverse Architect 1 decks
10 Kenrith, the Returned King 1 decks

Card text

Smitten Swordmaster

Creature — Human Knight

Lifelink

2 / 1

Curry Favor

Sorcery — Adventure

You gain X life and each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of Knights you control.

March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Common · Illustrated by Taylor Ingvarsson

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.