Live Play Data

Sword of Hearth and Home

· Artifact — Equipment · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1341

Decks Running

569

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=226

10%

14%

19%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 28% (32 / 226 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

1341 brought · 496 players

Brought to game

1341

Ever drawn

307

Reached battlefield

226

Still on board at game end

175

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ +5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=205) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=882).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=79).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.5pp to +19.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

346 instances

1.7%

Library

50.6%

Battlefield

18.8%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 28 decks
2 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 25 decks
3 Deadpool, Trading Card 23 decks
4 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 21 decks
5 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 16 decks
6 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 11 decks
7 Giada, Font of Hope 11 decks
8 Ratonhnhaké꞉ton 10 decks
9 Noctis, Heir Apparent 9 decks
10 Queen Marchesa 8 decks

Card text

Sword of Hearth and Home

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.