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Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway

Land // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

496

Decks Running

273

In Decks

2002

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Brightclimb Pathway

Land

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Grimclimb Pathway

Land

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Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Rare · Illustrated by Johannes Voss

Final zone distribution

129 instances

1.6%

Library

67.4%

Battlefield

10.9%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teysa Karlov 13 decks
2 Queen Marchesa 12 decks
3 Silverquill, the Disputant 12 decks
4 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 9 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 8 decks
6 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor 8 decks
7 Edgar Markov 7 decks
8 Killian, Decisive Mentor 7 decks
9 Breena, the Demagogue 6 decks
10 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

497 brought · 254 players

Brought to game

497

Ever drawn

116

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 92% 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.

≥ -12.2pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=89) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=333).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=20) — 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 -2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -12.2pp to +6.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=95

18%

15%

11%

12%

22%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 42%

95 of 100 times cast 95%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.