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The Reaver Cleaver

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

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Times Brought

644

Decks Running

352

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.

Final zone distribution

108 instances

3.7%

Library

53.7%

Battlefield

11.1%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 24 decks
2 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 23 decks
3 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 21 decks
4 Kratos, Stoic Father 15 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 14 decks
6 Sonic the Hedgehog 14 decks
7 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 14 decks
8 Smaug the Magnificent 13 decks
9 Captain America, First Avenger 10 decks
10 Smaug the Impenetrable 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

644 brought · 299 players

Brought to game

644

Ever drawn

102

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=56) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=416).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=26) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=68

10%

13%

22%

24%

21%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 25% (9 / 68 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

68 of 100 times cast 68%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.