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Swordsman's Steel

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

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Times Brought

423

Decks Running

167

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

79 instances

45.6%

Battlefield

11.4%

Graveyard

1.3%

Exile

41.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 23 decks
2 Captain America, First Avenger 15 decks
3 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 15 decks
4 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 10 decks
5 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 9 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 7 decks
7 Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms 6 decks
8 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 6 decks
9 T'Challa, the Black Panther 6 decks
10 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

423 brought · 157 players

Brought to game

423

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 90% 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 42% of the time (n=33) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=243).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=24).

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 +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval +6.0pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

18%

20%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 25% (7 / 40 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.