Live Play Data

Gateway Plaza

Land — Gate · War of the Spark (WAR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

640

Decks Running

273

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=143

12%

18%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 50%

The "good card" funnel

640 brought · 242 players

Brought to game

640

Ever drawn

176

Reached battlefield

143

Still on board at game end

137

Once cast, 96% 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.

≥ +6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=131) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=400).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (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 +15.3pp; 95% confidence interval +6.5pp to +24.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

192 instances

0.5%

Library

71.4%

Battlefield

11.5%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Gateway Plaza

Land — Gate

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}

: Add one mana of any color.

War of the Spark (WAR) · Common · Illustrated by Sung 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 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.