Live Play Data

Steelshaper's Gift

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1402

Decks Running

614

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=228

24%

10%

11%

10%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 24% (54 / 228 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 60%

The "good card" funnel

1402 brought · 525 players

Brought to game

1402

Ever drawn

307

Reached battlefield

228

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=206) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=916).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=65).

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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +12.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

345 instances

3.2%

Library

0.9%

Battlefield

73.6%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 94 decks
2 Captain America, First Avenger 40 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 39 decks
4 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 36 decks
5 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 35 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 29 decks
7 Lightning, Army of One 29 decks
8 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 14 decks
9 Amy Rose 10 decks
10 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 10 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.