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Gateway Plaza
Land — Gate
·
War of the Spark (WAR)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
189
Decks Running
75
In Decks
643
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
55 instances61.8%
Battlefield
18.2%
Graveyard
1.8%
Exile
18.2%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Child of Alara
7 decks
-
2
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
4 decks
-
3
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
4 decks
-
4
Nine-Fingers Keene
4 decks
-
5
Codie, Vociferous Codex
3 decks
-
6
Ramos, Dragon Engine
3 decks
-
7
Felothar the Steadfast
2 decks
-
8
Flubs, the Fool
2 decks
-
9
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
2 decks
-
10
Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
189 brought · 68 playersBrought to game
189
Ever drawn
47
Reached battlefield
36
Still on board at game end
34
Once cast, 94% 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.
≥ +8.7pp
Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=33) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=122).
Observed gap +25.9pp; 95% confidence interval +8.7pp to +43.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=36
14%
T1
19%
T2
3%
T3
14%
T4
6%
T5
33%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median
4.5
P25
2
· P75
8
· max
11
Cast same turn as drawn
38%
36 of 100 times cast
36%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
Frequently Asked
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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.