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Ghalta, Primal Hunger

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

734

Decks Running

368

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

200 instances

2.5%

Library

51.0%

Battlefield

11.5%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 53 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 40 decks
3 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 34 decks
4 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 26 decks
5 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 14 decks
6 Eshki, Temur's Roar 9 decks
7 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant 8 decks
8 Kona, Rescue Beastie 7 decks
9 Maular, the Next Evolution 7 decks
10 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

735 brought · 317 players

Brought to game

735

Ever drawn

144

Reached battlefield

106

Still on board at game end

102

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.

≥ +0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=93) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=452).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=26) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=106

10%

64%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 96% (1 / 106 cast on T12) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

941 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.