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Take Up the Shield

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

165

Decks Running

In Decks

611

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Take Up the Shield

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Common · Illustrated by Greg Staples

Final zone distribution

39 instances

2.6%

Library

12.8%

Battlefield

35.9%

Graveyard

15.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Feather, the Redeemed 9 decks
2 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4 decks
3 Captain America, Team Leader 3 decks
4 Lyse Hext 3 decks
5 Zethi, Arcane Blademaster 3 decks
6 Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon 2 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 2 decks
8 Captain America, First Avenger 2 decks
9 Cosmic Spider-Man 2 decks
10 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

165 brought · 80 players

Brought to game

165

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=21) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=108).

Observed gap +15.7pp; 95% confidence interval -7.4pp to +38.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

13%

52%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 0% (0 / 23 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

23 of 100 times cast 23%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.