Live Play Data

Walking Bulwark

· Artifact Creature — Golem · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

484

Decks Running

225

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

87%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=113

18%

10%

31%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 18% (20 / 113 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 68%

The "good card" funnel

484 brought · 217 players

Brought to game

484

Ever drawn

130

Reached battlefield

113

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=101) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=299).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=15).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -4.5pp to +12.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

139 instances

1.4%

Library

33.8%

Battlefield

43.9%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Walking Bulwark

Artifact Creature — Golem

Defender

: Until end of turn, target creature with defender gains haste, can attack as though it didn't have defender, and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jonas De Ro

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.