Live Play Data

Take Up the Shield

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

259

Decks Running

140

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33

15%

12%

55%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 0% (0 / 33 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

259 brought · 134 players

Brought to game

259

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=31) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=170).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=19).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +30.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

57 instances

1.8%

Library

12.3%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

14.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Feather, the Redeemed 12 decks
2 Captain America, Team Leader 8 decks
3 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 8 decks
4 Brigone, Soldier of Meletis 7 decks
5 Thor Odinson 5 decks
6 Sergeant John Benton 4 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 3 decks
8 Lyse Hext 3 decks
9 Zethi, Arcane Blademaster 3 decks
10 Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon 2 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.