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Sword of Light and Shadow

· Artifact — Equipment · Double Masters (2XM)

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Times Brought

185

Decks Running

103

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 Light and Shadow

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Equip {2}

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

Final zone distribution

42 instances

2.4%

Library

47.6%

Battlefield

21.4%

Graveyard

28.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 12 decks
2 Captain America, First Avenger 5 decks
3 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 5 decks
4 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 4 decks
5 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 3 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 2 decks
7 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 2 decks
8 Giada, Font of Hope 2 decks
9 Kenrith, the Returned King 2 decks
10 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

185 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

185

Ever drawn

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.

≥ -17.5pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=20) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=100).

Observed gap -5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -17.5pp to +7.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=24

13%

46%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 25% (3 / 24 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

24 of 100 times cast 24%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.