Live Play Data

Swords to Plowshares

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

62%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

17335

Decks Running

8173

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=2894

11%

16%

52%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 25

On curve 1% (17 / 2894 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

17355 brought · 3888 players

Brought to game

17355

Ever drawn

4033

Reached battlefield

2894

Still on board at game end

132

≥ +2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=2558) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=10672).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=938).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval +2.5pp to +6.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

4475 instances

2.9%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

62.5%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 232 decks
2 Captain America, Team Leader 192 decks
3 Ms. Bumbleflower 177 decks
4 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 137 decks
5 Edgar Markov 122 decks
6 Giada, Font of Hope 107 decks
7 Kaalia of the Vast 92 decks
8 Quintorius, History Chaser 87 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 84 decks
10 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 84 decks

Card text

Swords to Plowshares

Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Greg Smallwood

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.