Live Play Data

Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun

Legendary Artifact // Legendary Land · Rivals of Ixalan (RIX)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

148

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=30

20%

17%

10%

33%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 27% (6 / 30 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

148 brought · 54 players

Brought to game

148

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ -8.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=29) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=90).

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 +9.0pp; 95% confidence interval -8.8pp to +26.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

43 instances

7.0%

Library

60.5%

Battlefield

14.0%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 9 decks
2 Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus 7 decks
3 Whtz, the Bibliophile 6 decks
4 Molecule Man 3 decks
5 Giada, Font of Hope 2 decks
6 Karona, False God 2 decks
7 Killmonger, Ruthless Usurper 2 decks
8 Odric, Lunarch Marshal 2 decks
9 Zedruu the Greathearted 2 decks
10 Aeve, Progenitor Ooze 1 decks

Card text

Azor's Gateway

Legendary Artifact

: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand. If cards with five or more different mana values are exiled with Azor's Gateway, you gain 5 life, untap Azor's Gateway, and transform it.

Sanctum of the Sun

Legendary Land

(Transforms from Azor's Gateway.) {T}

: Add X mana of any one color, where X is your life total.

Rivals of Ixalan (RIX) · Mythic · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.