Live Play Data

Gathering Stone

· Artifact · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

792

Decks Running

324

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=104

23%

14%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 32% (24 / 104 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

792 brought · 290 players

Brought to game

792

Ever drawn

166

Reached battlefield

104

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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 30% of the time (n=98) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=527).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=57).

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 +9.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

180 instances

4.4%

Library

42.8%

Battlefield

20.6%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Gathering Stone

Artifact

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1}

less to cast. When this artifact enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.

Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Paolo Parente

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.