Live Play Data

Ganax, Astral Hunter

· Legendary Creature — Dragon · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1490

Decks Running

526

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=327

24%

20%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 57% (66 / 327 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

1493 brought · 479 players

Brought to game

1493

Ever drawn

321

Reached battlefield

251

Still on board at game end

151

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ +10.8pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=220) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=988).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=62).

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 +17.3pp; 95% confidence interval +10.8pp to +23.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

348 instances

3.2%

Library

43.4%

Battlefield

31.0%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 98 decks
2 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 83 decks
3 Ureni of the Unwritten 65 decks
4 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 36 decks
5 Smaug the Magnificent 32 decks
6 Tiamat 24 decks
7 Atarka, World Render 20 decks
8 Rivaz of the Claw 20 decks
9 Smaug the Impenetrable 9 decks
10 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 8 decks

Card text

Ganax, Astral Hunter

Legendary Creature — Dragon

Flying Whenever Ganax or another Dragon you control enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Aaron Miller

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.