Live Play Data

Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary

Sorcery // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4076

Decks Running

1696

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=676

12%

13%

43%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 22% (52 / 676 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

4076 brought · 1233 players

Brought to game

4076

Ever drawn

1061

Reached battlefield

676

Still on board at game end

300

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ +5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=631) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2502).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=361).

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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval +5.0pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1220 instances

3.0%

Library

24.6%

Battlefield

40.2%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 54 decks
2 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 25 decks
3 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 24 decks
4 Flubs, the Fool 21 decks
5 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 21 decks
6 Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge 20 decks
7 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 19 decks
8 Teval, the Balanced Scale 19 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 18 decks
10 Kwia Vigorbloom 18 decks

Card text

Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Bala Ged Sanctuary

Land

This land enters tapped. {T}

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Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lucas Staniec

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.