Live Play Data

Swordsman's Steel

· Artifact — Equipment · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

446

Decks Running

172

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=71

11%

15%

56%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 18% (8 / 71 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

446 brought · 159 players

Brought to game

446

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=63) , vs 33% when it never left the library (n=269).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=36).

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 +13.3pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +26.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

122 instances

3.3%

Library

47.5%

Battlefield

12.3%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 36 decks
2 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 27 decks
3 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 14 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 9 decks
5 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 6 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 5 decks
7 T'Challa, the Black Panther 4 decks
8 Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer 4 decks
9 Blor the Impervious 3 decks
10 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 3 decks

Card text

Swordsman's Steel

Artifact — Equipment

When this Equipment enters, draw a card for each Equipment you control. Equipped creature gets +2/+2 for each Equipment you control. Equip {3}

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Daneen Wilkerson

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.