Live Play Data

Gamble

· Sorcery · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3659

Decks Running

1578

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=614

15%

10%

11%

13%

14%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 15% (94 / 614 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 54%

The "good card" funnel

3659 brought · 1128 players

Brought to game

3659

Ever drawn

858

Reached battlefield

614

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=554) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2283).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=217).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +7.0pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

971 instances

4.5%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

66.0%

Graveyard

11.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 97 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 60 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 33 decks
4 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 32 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 30 decks
6 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 29 decks
7 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 28 decks
8 Yusri, Fortune's Flame 28 decks
9 Mr. House, President and CEO 27 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 25 decks

Card text

Gamble

Sorcery

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

Dominaria Remastered (DMR) · Rare · Illustrated by Andrew Goldhawk

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.