Live Play Data

Garruk, Apex Predator

· Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk · Magic 2015 (M15)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

157

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21

14%

10%

38%

T6-9

33%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 11 · max 12

On curve 52% (3 / 21 cast on T7)

The "good card" funnel

157 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

157

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=18) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=100).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=19).

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 +21.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +42.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances

8.9%

Library

31.1%

Battlefield

26.7%

Graveyard

33.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Disa the Restless 18 decks
2 Carth the Lion 9 decks
3 Tam, the Possibility 9 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 6 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 6 decks
6 Xavier Sal, Infested Captain 4 decks
7 The Serpent Society 3 decks
8 Ziatora, the Incinerator 3 decks
9 Belbe, Corrupted Observer 2 decks
10 Chief of the Wilds 2 decks

Card text

Garruk, Apex Predator

Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk

+1: Destroy another target planeswalker. +1: Create a 3/3 black Beast creature token with deathtouch. −3: Destroy target creature. You gain life equal to its toughness. −8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a creature attacks you, it gets +5/+5 and gains trample until end of turn."

Loyalty 5

Magic 2015 (M15) · Mythic · Illustrated by Tyler Jacobson

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.