Live Play Data

Steelshaper's Gift

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2008

Decks Running

825

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=313

22%

12%

10%

11%

10%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 22% (68 / 313 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 58%

The "good card" funnel

2009 brought · 712 players

Brought to game

2009

Ever drawn

427

Reached battlefield

313

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=280) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1316).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=97).

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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +11.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

485 instances

3.1%

Library

0.8%

Battlefield

73.4%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 129 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 56 decks
3 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 56 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 51 decks
5 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 44 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 38 decks
7 Lightning, Army of One 38 decks
8 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 21 decks
9 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 16 decks
10 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 15 decks

Card text

Steelshaper's Gift

Sorcery

Search your library for an Equipment card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.