Live Play Data

Castle Garenbrig

Land · Throne of Eldraine (ELD)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

613

Decks Running

347

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=119

10%

18%

15%

11%

12%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 47%

The "good card" funnel

615 brought · 289 players

Brought to game

615

Ever drawn

150

Reached battlefield

119

Still on board at game end

106

Once cast, 89% 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.

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=105) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=375).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=28).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

167 instances

4.8%

Library

63.5%

Battlefield

17.4%

Graveyard

2.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 23 decks
2 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 18 decks
3 Beorn the Fierce 9 decks
4 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 9 decks
5 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 7 decks
6 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 7 decks
7 Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge 7 decks
8 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 6 decks
9 Ayula, Queen Among Bears 5 decks
10 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 5 decks

Card text

Castle Garenbrig

Land

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}

: Add

: Add six

. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.

Throne of Eldraine (ELD) · Rare · Illustrated by Adam Paquette

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.