Live Play Data

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3451

Decks Running

1445

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1094

13%

23%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 99% (9 / 1094 cast on T12) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

3455 brought · 1225 players

Brought to game

3455

Ever drawn

865

Reached battlefield

594

Still on board at game end

340

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.

≥ +11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=533) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2167).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=247).

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 +15.9pp; 95% confidence interval +11.7pp to +20.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

971 instances

4.0%

Library

35.0%

Battlefield

27.0%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 167 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 147 decks
3 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 134 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 53 decks
5 Eshki, Temur's Roar 43 decks
6 Radagast of Rhosgobel 34 decks
7 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 32 decks
8 Beorn the Fierce 30 decks
9 Zilortha, Strength Incarnate 26 decks
10 Xenagos, God of Revels 25 decks

Card text

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

This spell costs {X}

less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control. Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

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Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Chase Stone

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.