Live Play Data

Deploy the Gatewatch

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

102

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

102 brought · 47 players

Brought to game

102

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -34.8pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=18) , vs 45% when it never left the library (n=64).

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 -11.4pp; 95% confidence interval -34.8pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

27 instances

74.1%

Graveyard

25.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Commodore Guff 26 decks
2 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 4 decks
3 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
4 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion 2 decks
5 Tam, the Possibility 2 decks
6 The Thing 2 decks
7 Worzel, the Protector 2 decks
8 Jace, Multiverse Architect 1 decks
9 Jared Carthalion 1 decks
10 Jetmir, Nexus of Revels 1 decks

Card text

Deploy the Gatewatch

Sorcery

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put up to two planeswalker cards from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Wesley Burt

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.