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Live Play Data

Sword of Hearth and Home

{3} · Artifact — Equipment · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
721
Decks Running
353
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
73%
Format

First-cast turn

n=123
7%
T1
11%
T2
13%
T3
12%
T4
20%
T5
33%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16
On curve 30% (16 / 123 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

721 brought · 308 players
Brought to game
721
Ever drawn
168
Reached battlefield
123
Still on board at game end
101

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ +7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=111) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=462).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=42).

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 +16.3pp; 95% confidence interval +7.0pp to +25.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

189 instances
2.1%
Library
53.4%
Battlefield
18.5%
Graveyard
5.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Sword of Hearth and Home card

Sword of Hearth and Home

{3}
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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.