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Gamble

· Sorcery · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

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Times Brought

3189

Decks Running

1490

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

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

Final zone distribution

707 instances

2.7%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

67.5%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 96 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 70 decks
3 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 40 decks
4 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 38 decks
5 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 33 decks
6 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 29 decks
7 Kaalia of the Vast 27 decks
8 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 22 decks
9 Okaun, Eye of Chaos 22 decks
10 Kratos, God of War 21 decks

The "good card" funnel

3189 brought · 1087 players

Brought to game

3189

Ever drawn

639

Reached battlefield

449

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=351) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1835).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=140).

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 +2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.7pp to +4.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=449

20%

10%

12%

13%

16%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 18

On curve 20% (92 / 449 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 56%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.