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Steelshaper's Gift

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

1270

Decks Running

521

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

228 instances

1.8%

Library

1.3%

Battlefield

73.2%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 71 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 44 decks
3 Captain America, First Avenger 43 decks
4 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 30 decks
5 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 25 decks
6 Lightning, Army of One 20 decks
7 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 19 decks
8 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 13 decks
9 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 11 decks
10 Mabel, Heir to Cragflame 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1270 brought · 473 players

Brought to game

1270

Ever drawn

214

Reached battlefield

160

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=132) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=736).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=30).

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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.4pp to +8.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=160

22%

13%

16%

11%

12%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 22% (35 / 160 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

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.