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Creature — Eldrazi
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Commander Masters (CMM)
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Bane of Bala Ged
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Creature — Eldrazi
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Commander Masters (CMM)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
118
Decks Running
75
In Decks
554
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
29 instances6.9%
Library
34.5%
Battlefield
31.0%
Graveyard
10.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games- 1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 20 decks
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2
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
6 decks
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3
Alena, Kessig Trapper
4 decks
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4
Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
4 decks
- 5 Molecule Man 4 decks
- 6 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 4 decks
- 7 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 3 decks
- 8 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger 3 decks
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9
Animar, Soul of Elements
2 decks
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10
Azlask, the Swelling Scourge
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
121 brought · 71 playersBrought to game
121
Ever drawn
26
Reached battlefield
21
Still on board at game end
10
Once cast, 48% 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.
≥ +8.6pp
Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=19) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=84).
Observed gap +29.4pp; 95% confidence interval +8.6pp to +50.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=21
0%
T1
0%
T2
5%
T3
5%
T4
14%
T5
67%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median
7
P25
6
· P75
8
· max
13
On curve
71%
(5 / 21 cast on T7)
Cast same turn as drawn
20%
21 of 100 times cast
21%
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. Playgroup has recorded 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.