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Elder Gargaroth

· Creature — Beast · Core Set 2021 (M21)

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Times Brought

244

Decks Running

122

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

53 instances

1.9%

Library

22.6%

Battlefield

37.7%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Indominus Rex, Alpha 16 decks
2 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 10 decks
3 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 10 decks
4 Radagast of Rhosgobel 8 decks
5 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 6 decks
6 Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution 3 decks
7 Wulfgar of Icewind Dale 3 decks
8 Xenagos, God of Revels 3 decks
9 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole 2 decks
10 Eshki, Temur's Roar 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

244 brought · 115 players

Brought to game

244

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ -10.5pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=28) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=157).

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 -0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -10.5pp to +9.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

23%

53%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 33% (1 / 30 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.