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Gateway Plaza

Land — Gate · War of the Spark (WAR)

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Times Brought

397

Decks Running

195

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

110 instances

1.8%

Library

66.4%

Battlefield

11.8%

Graveyard

1.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Child of Alara 19 decks
2 Nine-Fingers Keene 15 decks
3 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 13 decks
4 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 9 decks
5 Ramos, Dragon Engine 7 decks
6 Kenrith, the Returned King 4 decks
7 Sliver Overlord 4 decks
8 Archelos, Lagoon Mystic 3 decks
9 Codie, Vociferous Codex 3 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

397 brought · 179 players

Brought to game

397

Ever drawn

104

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 92% 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.

≥ -0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=68) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=225).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.8pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=79

15%

23%

10%

28%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 53%

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.