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Steelshaper's Gift

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

453

Decks Running

205

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

78 instances

1.3%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

74.4%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 27 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 22 decks
3 Captain America, First Avenger 15 decks
4 Lightning, Army of One 11 decks
5 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 10 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 6 decks
7 Amy Rose 5 decks
8 Noctis, Heir Apparent 5 decks
9 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 5 decks
10 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

453 brought · 190 players

Brought to game

453

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=49) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=269).

Observed gap +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=59

27%

19%

17%

15%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 15

On curve 27% (16 / 59 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

59 of 100 times cast 59%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.