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Part of Commander Masters
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Creature — Eldrazi
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Commander Masters (CMM)
Live Play Data
Bane of Bala Ged
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Creature — Eldrazi
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Commander Masters (CMM)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
600
Decks Running
236
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
67%
Format
First-cast turn
n=83
0%
T1
0%
T2
1%
T3
7%
T4
18%
T5
63%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median
7
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
18
On curve
61%
(10 / 83 cast on T7)
Cast same turn as drawn
40%
The "good card" funnel
603 brought · 213 playersBrought to game
603
Ever drawn
124
Reached battlefield
83
Still on board at game end
45
Once cast, 54% 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.
≥ +15.9pp
Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=77) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=408).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=36).
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 +26.6pp; 95% confidence interval +15.9pp to +37.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
131 instances4.6%
Library
34.4%
Battlefield
23.7%
Graveyard
9.9%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games- 1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 76 decks
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2
The Beamtown Bullies
14 decks
- 3 Molecule Man 13 decks
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4
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
11 decks
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5
Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood
9 decks
- 6 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 8 decks
- 7 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 8 decks
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8
Niko, Light of Hope
6 decks
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9
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
6 decks
- 10 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger 6 decks
Card text
Bane of Bala Ged
Creature — Eldrazi
Whenever this creature attacks, defending player exiles two permanents they control.
7 / 5
Commander Masters (CMM)
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Uncommon
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Illustrated by Chase Stone
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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.