Live Play Data

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

1864

Decks Running

850

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=445

10%

21%

54%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 98% (6 / 445 cast on T12) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

1867 brought · 717 players

Brought to game

1867

Ever drawn

467

Reached battlefield

324

Still on board at game end

183

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +8.6pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=295) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1171).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=127).

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 +14.1pp; 95% confidence interval +8.6pp to +19.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

528 instances

4.9%

Library

34.7%

Battlefield

28.4%

Graveyard

10.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 116 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 90 decks
3 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 75 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 28 decks
5 Eshki, Temur's Roar 26 decks
6 Beorn the Fierce 19 decks
7 Dina, Essence Brewer 17 decks
8 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 17 decks
9 Radagast of Rhosgobel 17 decks
10 Xenagos, God of Revels 14 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.)

12 / 12

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.