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Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

620

Decks Running

297

In Decks

1782

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

Trample When Ghalta enters, put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lars Grant-West

Final zone distribution

183 instances

4.4%

Library

46.4%

Battlefield

23.0%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 57 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 46 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 27 decks
4 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 13 decks
5 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 12 decks
6 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 9 decks
7 Kona, Rescue Beastie 7 decks
8 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 6 decks
9 Blue, Loyal Raptor 5 decks
10 Loot, Exuberant Explorer 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

621 brought · 255 players

Brought to game

621

Ever drawn

169

Reached battlefield

126

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +11.6pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=110) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=377).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=38) — 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 +20.9pp; 95% confidence interval +11.6pp to +30.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=126

15%

68%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 79% (21 / 126 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

602 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.