Live Play Data

Take Up the Shield

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

471

Decks Running

235

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

12%

55%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 2% (0 / 51 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

473 brought · 218 players

Brought to game

473

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=46) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=323).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (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 +14.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.6pp to +29.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

96 instances

4.2%

Library

9.4%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Feather, the Redeemed 20 decks
2 Captain America, Team Leader 11 decks
3 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 10 decks
4 Brigone, Soldier of Meletis 8 decks
5 Sergeant John Benton 5 decks
6 Thor Odinson 5 decks
7 Zethi, Arcane Blademaster 5 decks
8 Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon 4 decks
9 Captain America, First Avenger 4 decks
10 Jared Carthalion, True Heir 4 decks

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

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.