Live Play Data

Sword of Sinew and Steel

· Artifact — Equipment · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

118

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

93%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=26

15%

12%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 27% (2 / 26 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

118 brought · 66 players

Brought to game

118

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -29.7pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=25) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=68).

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 -12.2pp; 95% confidence interval -29.7pp to +5.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

31 instances

58.1%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

3.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sword of Sinew and Steel

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from red. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target planeswalker and up to one target artifact. Equip {2}

Modern Horizons (MH1) · 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.