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The Spear of Bashenga

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

357

Decks Running

174

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 Spear of Bashenga

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

Final zone distribution

72 instances

1.4%

Library

59.7%

Battlefield

13.9%

Graveyard

1.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 162 decks
2 Queen Marchesa 3 decks
3 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2 decks
4 Aragorn, King of Gondor 1 decks
5 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
6 Eight-and-a-Half-Tails 1 decks
7 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 1 decks
8 Kwia Vigorbloom 1 decks
9 Queen Mother Ramonda 1 decks
10 Shuri, the Black Panther 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

357 brought · 160 players

Brought to game

357

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ -4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=37) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=202).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.6pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=52

10%

23%

56%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 38% (12 / 52 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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.