Live Play Data

Gate to the Afterlife

· Artifact · Amonkhet (AKH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

217

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=49

18%

12%

10%

45%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 18% (9 / 49 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

217 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

217

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

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.

≥ -11.8pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=48) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=115).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 4% (n=18).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -11.8pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

77 instances

36.4%

Battlefield

42.9%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

13.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 42 decks
2 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 7 decks
3 Varina, Lich Queen 3 decks
4 Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer 2 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 2 decks
6 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 2 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 1 decks
8 Ashling, the Limitless 1 decks
9 Ayara, First of Locthwain 1 decks
10 Doctor Doom 1 decks

Card text

Gate to the Afterlife

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. {2}

, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Amonkhet (AKH) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Christine Choi

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.