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Ghalta, Primal Hunger

{10} {G} {G} · Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · Foundations (FDN)
Times Brought
2054
Decks Running
977
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

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

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Ghalta, Primal Hunger card

Ghalta, Primal Hunger

{10} {G} {G}
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

Final zone distribution

470 instances
2.6%
Library
47.9%
Battlefield
19.4%
Graveyard
5.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

2055 brought · 821 players
Brought to game
2055
Ever drawn
442
Reached battlefield
317
Still on board at game end
225

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=247) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1112).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=79).

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 +6.5pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +9.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=711
1%
T1
1%
T2
6%
T3
18%
T4
22%
T5
47%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 24
On curve 99% (3 / 711 cast on T12) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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.