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Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary

Sorcery // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

601

Decks Running

319

In Decks

2854

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

175 instances

4.0%

Library

27.4%

Battlefield

41.7%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 9 decks
2 Baylen, the Haymaker 8 decks
3 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 7 decks
4 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 7 decks
5 Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge 7 decks
6 Witherbloom, the Balancer 6 decks
7 Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss 5 decks
8 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 4 decks
9 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 4 decks
10 Quandrix, the Proof 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

601 brought · 251 players

Brought to game

601

Ever drawn

151

Reached battlefield

102

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=96) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=398).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=47) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -4.3pp to +14.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=102

13%

41%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 22% (6 / 102 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

562 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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.