Live Play Data

Sword of the Animist

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3650

Decks Running

1682

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=698

16%

13%

14%

12%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 21% (111 / 698 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

3656 brought · 1288 players

Brought to game

3656

Ever drawn

921

Reached battlefield

698

Still on board at game end

571

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.

≥ +0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=634) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2282).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=196).

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 +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +8.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1013 instances

2.2%

Library

56.4%

Battlefield

18.8%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sword of the Animist

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.