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

748

Decks Running

285

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=137

25%

21%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 57% (29 / 137 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

751 brought · 266 players

Brought to game

751

Ever drawn

148

Reached battlefield

112

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=95) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=503).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=31).

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 +19.0pp; 95% confidence interval +9.2pp to +28.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

164 instances

3.7%

Library

39.0%

Battlefield

35.4%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 57 decks
2 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 49 decks
3 Ureni of the Unwritten 32 decks
4 Smaug the Magnificent 21 decks
5 Tiamat 15 decks
6 Rivaz of the Claw 12 decks
7 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 10 decks
8 Atarka, World Render 9 decks
9 Kaalia of the Vast 5 decks
10 Scion of the Ur-Dragon 5 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.