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Sword of the Animist

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

2375

Decks Running

1135

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 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

Final zone distribution

483 instances

2.9%

Library

65.8%

Battlefield

11.8%

Graveyard

2.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 164 decks
2 T'Challa, the Black Panther 128 decks
3 Giada, Font of Hope 46 decks
4 Tifa Lockhart 24 decks
5 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 20 decks
6 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 19 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 18 decks
8 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 18 decks
9 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 16 decks
10 Kratos, God of War 16 decks

The "good card" funnel

2379 brought · 903 players

Brought to game

2379

Ever drawn

462

Reached battlefield

360

Still on board at game end

318

Once cast, 88% 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.

≥ -1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=277) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1464).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=77).

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 +2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.0pp to +5.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=360

13%

16%

12%

15%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 29% (57 / 360 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

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.