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Sword of Truth and Justice

· Artifact — Equipment · Modern Horizons (MH1)

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Times Brought

234

Decks Running

143

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

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 Truth and Justice

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from blue. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Equip {2}

Modern Horizons (MH1) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

Final zone distribution

46 instances

4.3%

Library

63.0%

Battlefield

6.5%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, Stoic Father 16 decks
2 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 12 decks
3 Fynn, the Fangbearer 5 decks
4 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 5 decks
5 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 4 decks
6 Kenrith, the Returned King 4 decks
7 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 3 decks
8 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 3 decks
9 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 3 decks
10 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

234 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

234

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 100% 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.

≥ -5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=24) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=139).

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 +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.0pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

24%

10%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 10% (2 / 29 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.