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Take Up the Shield

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

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Times Brought

375

Decks Running

177

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

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

76 instances

5.3%

Battlefield

48.7%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

38.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 14 decks
2 Feather, the Redeemed 11 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 8 decks
4 Thor Odinson 6 decks
5 Brigone, Soldier of Meletis 4 decks
6 Captain America, First Avenger 4 decks
7 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4 decks
8 T'Challa, the Black Panther 4 decks
9 Cosmic Spider-Man 3 decks
10 Killian, Ink Duelist 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

377 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

377

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=27) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=223).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=21).

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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -3.7pp to +15.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

13%

45%

T6-9

33%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 15

On curve 0% (0 / 40 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

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.