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Live Play Data

The Spear of Bashenga

{4} {W} · Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
166
Decks Running
69
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
66%
Format

First-cast turn

n=31
0%
T1
0%
T2
13%
T3
23%
T4
6%
T5
45%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12
On curve 42% (2 / 31 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

166 brought · 67 players
Brought to game
166
Ever drawn
47
Reached battlefield
31
Still on board at game end
26

Once cast, 84% 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.

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=26) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=98).

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 +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +31.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

55 instances
47.3%
Battlefield
21.8%
Graveyard
1.8%
Exile
29.1%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
The Spear of Bashenga card

The Spear of Bashenga

{4} {W}
Legendary Artifact — Equipment
When The Spear of Bashenga enters, if there is no monarch, you become the monarch. Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has vigilance. Whenever equipped creature attacks the monarch, destroy target tapped nonland permanent that player controls. Equip {2}
Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Michael Machira

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.