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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
612
Decks Running
217
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
65%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=103
1%
T1
1%
T2
3%
T3
10%
T4
16%
T5
61%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11
On curve 15% (10 / 103 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

612 brought · 202 players
Brought to game
612
Ever drawn
158
Reached battlefield
103
Still on board at game end
87

Once cast, 84% 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.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=93) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=370).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=47).

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 +11.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +21.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

168 instances
4.2%
Library
51.8%
Battlefield
11.3%
Graveyard
4.2%
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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.