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Live Play Data

Walking Bulwark

{1} · Artifact Creature — Golem · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
203
Decks Running
114
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
90%
Format

First-cast turn

n=46
20%
T1
9%
T2
7%
T3
11%
T4
7%
T5
30%
T6-9
17%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 14
On curve 20% (9 / 46 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 67%

The "good card" funnel

203 brought · 111 players
Brought to game
203
Ever drawn
51
Reached battlefield
46
Still on board at game end
20

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=40) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=132).

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 +16.5pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +31.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

55 instances
1.8%
Library
36.4%
Battlefield
40.0%
Graveyard
12.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Walking Bulwark card

Walking Bulwark

{1}
Artifact Creature — Golem
Defender {2}: 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.