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The Masamune

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

306

Decks Running

138

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

The Masamune

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

As long as equipped creature is attacking, it has first strike and must be blocked if able. Equipped creature has "If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of this creature or an emblem you own to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time." Equip {2}

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Masateru Ikeda

Final zone distribution

65 instances

3.1%

Library

43.1%

Battlefield

23.1%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 51 decks
2 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 14 decks
3 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 11 decks
4 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 7 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 4 decks
6 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole 3 decks
7 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks
8 Teysa Karlov 3 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks
10 Absolute Virtue 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

306 brought · 128 players

Brought to game

306

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=29) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=184).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=18).

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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +15.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35

11%

14%

17%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 20% (4 / 35 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.