Live Play Data

The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart

· Legendary Artifact // Sorcery — Adventure · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

970

Decks Running

361

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=150

18%

47%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 39% (27 / 150 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

970 brought · 302 players

Brought to game

970

Ever drawn

220

Reached battlefield

150

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=128) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=611).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=62).

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 +12.1pp; 95% confidence interval +3.6pp to +20.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

240 instances

2.9%

Library

35.8%

Battlefield

21.7%

Graveyard

18.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

The Arkenstone

Legendary Artifact

Creatures you control get +1/+1. At the beginning of your end step, draw a card.

Seek the Heart

Sorcery — Adventure

Search your library for a legendary creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Then exile this card. You may cast the artifact later from exile.)

The Hobbit (HOB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Gaboleps

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.