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Gargos, Vicious Watcher

· Legendary Creature — Hydra · Core Set 2020 (M20)

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Times Brought

100

Decks Running

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

Gargos, Vicious Watcher

Legendary Creature — Hydra

Vigilance Hydra spells you cast cost {4}

less to cast. Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell, Gargos fights up to one target creature you don't control.

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Core Set 2020 (M20) · Rare · Illustrated by Mathias Kollros

Final zone distribution

42 instances

4.8%

Library

47.6%

Battlefield

7.1%

Graveyard

2.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zaxara, the Exemplary 14 decks
2 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 13 decks
3 Progenitus 2 decks
4 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 2 decks
5 Animar, Soul of Elements 1 decks
6 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 1 decks
7 Casal, Lurkwood Pathfinder // Casal, Pathbreaker Owlbear 1 decks
8 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 1 decks
9 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 1 decks
10 Kruphix, God of Horizons 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

100 brought · 47 players

Brought to game

100

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

13 of 100 times cast 13%

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.