Live Play Data

Sword of the Animist

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5022

Decks Running

2225

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=953

15%

12%

15%

13%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 20% (143 / 953 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

5029 brought · 1678 players

Brought to game

5029

Ever drawn

1246

Reached battlefield

953

Still on board at game end

791

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.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=850) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=3128).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=259).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +7.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1371 instances

2.1%

Library

57.7%

Battlefield

18.5%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.