Live Play Data

Sword of Fire and Ice

· Artifact — Equipment · Double Masters (2XM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1306

Decks Running

543

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=239

18%

13%

15%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 24% (43 / 239 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

1307 brought · 455 players

Brought to game

1307

Ever drawn

327

Reached battlefield

239

Still on board at game end

190

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ +5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=225) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=830).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=74).

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 +11.6pp; 95% confidence interval +5.2pp to +18.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

352 instances

2.0%

Library

54.0%

Battlefield

21.3%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 41 decks
2 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 32 decks
3 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 31 decks
4 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 28 decks
5 Captain America, First Avenger 19 decks
6 Lightning, Army of One 17 decks
7 Kratos, God of War 15 decks
8 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 10 decks
9 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 10 decks
10 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 10 decks

Card text

Sword of Fire and Ice

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, this Equipment deals 2 damage to any target and you draw a card. Equip {2}

Double Masters (2XM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.