Live Play Data

Elder Gargaroth

· Creature — Beast · Core Set 2021 (M21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

598

Decks Running

236

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=108

14%

19%

52%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 36% (20 / 108 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

599 brought · 220 players

Brought to game

599

Ever drawn

160

Reached battlefield

108

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ +5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=102) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=380).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=47).

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 +15.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.5pp to +25.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

170 instances

2.4%

Library

32.9%

Battlefield

35.3%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Elder Gargaroth

Creature — Beast

Reach, vigilance, trample Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, choose one — • Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. • You gain 3 life. • Draw a card.

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Core Set 2021 (M21) · Mythic · Illustrated by Nicholas Gregory

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.