Live Play Data

Deploy the Gatewatch

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

238

Decks Running

109

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

23%

60%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 34% (4 / 35 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

The "good card" funnel

238 brought · 105 players

Brought to game

238

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -25.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=34) , vs 38% when it never left the library (n=151).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=23).

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 -10.1pp; 95% confidence interval -25.9pp to +5.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

63 instances

3.2%

Library

65.1%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

28.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Commodore Guff 47 decks
2 Tam, the Possibility 21 decks
3 Jace, Multiverse Architect 12 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 9 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
6 Leori, Sparktouched Hunter 3 decks
7 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion 2 decks
8 The Thing 2 decks
9 Worzel, the Protector 2 decks
10 Brimaz, King of Oreskos 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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.