Live Play Data

Ancient Gold Dragon

· Creature — Elder Dragon · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1332

Decks Running

469

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=212

19%

59%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 65% (39 / 212 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

1332 brought · 436 players

Brought to game

1332

Ever drawn

312

Reached battlefield

212

Still on board at game end

125

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +9.8pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=189) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=852).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=88).

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 +17.0pp; 95% confidence interval +9.8pp to +24.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

342 instances

2.6%

Library

36.5%

Battlefield

26.9%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 155 decks
2 Mr. House, President and CEO 83 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 56 decks
4 Tiamat 24 decks
5 Scion of the Ur-Dragon 8 decks
6 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 5 decks
7 Arthur, Marigold Knight 4 decks
8 Baylen, the Haymaker 4 decks
9 Niko, Light of Hope 4 decks
10 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 3 decks

Card text

Ancient Gold Dragon

Creature — Elder Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. You create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to the result.

7 / 10

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Simon Dominic

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.