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Live Play Data

Swordsman's Steel

{4} · Artifact — Equipment · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
986
Decks Running
339
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
68%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=169
1%
T1
1%
T2
2%
T3
8%
T4
14%
T5
62%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13
On curve 11% (13 / 169 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

986 brought · 309 players
Brought to game
986
Ever drawn
250
Reached battlefield
169
Still on board at game end
143

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ +6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=164) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=661).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=74).

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 +13.6pp; 95% confidence interval +6.0pp to +21.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

264 instances
3.0%
Library
54.2%
Battlefield
12.1%
Graveyard
4.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Swordsman's Steel card

Swordsman's Steel

{4}
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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.