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Sword of Fire and Ice

· Artifact — Equipment · Double Masters (2XM)

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Times Brought

714

Decks Running

374

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

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

Final zone distribution

144 instances

3.5%

Library

53.5%

Battlefield

14.6%

Graveyard

2.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 24 decks
2 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 21 decks
3 Captain America, First Avenger 19 decks
4 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 14 decks
5 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 14 decks
6 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 11 decks
7 Kratos, God of War 10 decks
8 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 7 decks
9 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 7 decks
10 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

714 brought · 333 players

Brought to game

714

Ever drawn

134

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 86% 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.

≥ -5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=61) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=418).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=27).

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 +1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.1pp to +8.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=90

11%

22%

14%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 24% (10 / 90 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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.