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Sword of Light and Shadow

· Artifact — Equipment · Double Masters (2XM)

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Times Brought

519

Decks Running

231

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

115 instances

1.7%

Library

49.6%

Battlefield

16.5%

Graveyard

0.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 19 decks
2 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 12 decks
3 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 10 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 8 decks
5 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 7 decks
6 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 7 decks
7 Kratos, God of War 6 decks
8 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 5 decks
9 Cloud, Planet's Champion 4 decks
10 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

519 brought · 216 players

Brought to game

519

Ever drawn

107

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.

≥ -8.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=48) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=298).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=34).

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 -0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.3pp to +6.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=66

12%

21%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 23% (6 / 66 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.