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Steelshaper's Gift

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

428

Decks Running

207

In Decks

1313

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

107 instances

2.8%

Library

1.9%

Battlefield

72.9%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 29 decks
2 Captain America, First Avenger 16 decks
3 Lightning, Army of One 15 decks
4 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 12 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 11 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 10 decks
7 Amy Rose 7 decks
8 Noctis, Heir Apparent 6 decks
9 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 5 decks
10 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

428 brought · 187 players

Brought to game

428

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=71) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=283).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=22) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +12.1pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +23.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=73

19%

11%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 19% (14 / 73 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 63%

73 of 100 times cast 73%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.