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Sword of the Animist

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

1239

Decks Running

630

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.

Final zone distribution

252 instances

3.2%

Library

69.0%

Battlefield

11.1%

Graveyard

2.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 93 decks
2 T'Challa, the Black Panther 63 decks
3 Giada, Font of Hope 30 decks
4 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 13 decks
5 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 13 decks
6 Tifa Lockhart 12 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 10 decks
8 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 10 decks
9 Galea, Kindler of Hope 10 decks
10 Captain America, First Avenger 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

1243 brought · 512 players

Brought to game

1243

Ever drawn

244

Reached battlefield

200

Still on board at game end

174

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ -3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=151) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=787).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=36) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -3.1pp to +5.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=200

14%

17%

10%

13%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 31% (33 / 200 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

1706 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.