Live Play Data

Galvanic Discharge

· Instant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

119

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=20

15%

20%

45%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 5% (1 / 20 cast on T1)

The "good card" funnel

119 brought · 60 players

Brought to game

119

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -16.1pp

Players who cast this card win 11% of the time (n=20) , vs 13% when it never left the library (n=70).

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 -2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -16.1pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

32 instances

6.3%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

68.8%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Galvanic Discharge

Instant

Choose target creature or planeswalker. You get {E}

(three energy counters), then you may pay any amount of {E}

. Galvanic Discharge deals that much damage to that permanent.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Common · Illustrated by Zoltan Boros

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.