Live Play Data

Sting, Bilbo's Sword

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

490

Decks Running

198

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=63

13%

14%

54%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 5% (3 / 63 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

490 brought · 182 players

Brought to game

490

Ever drawn

110

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 83% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=55) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=315).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=40).

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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.8pp to +18.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

120 instances

0.8%

Library

43.3%

Battlefield

22.5%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sting, Bilbo's Sword

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Flash When Sting enters, put a hone counter on Sting for each creature target opponent controls. Attach Sting to up to one target creature you control. (Each hone counter on an Equipment grants +1/+0 to equipped creature.) Equip {3}

The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Tomas Duchek

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.