Live Play Data

Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1892

Decks Running

745

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=392

15%

67%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 79% (68 / 392 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

1893 brought · 644 players

Brought to game

1893

Ever drawn

531

Reached battlefield

387

Still on board at game end

245

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +16.9pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=345) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1144).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=126).

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 +22.2pp; 95% confidence interval +16.9pp to +27.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

565 instances

3.7%

Library

43.4%

Battlefield

24.1%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 129 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 116 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 56 decks
4 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 29 decks
5 Radagast of Rhosgobel 28 decks
6 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 25 decks
7 Kona, Rescue Beastie 22 decks
8 Maular, the Next Evolution 18 decks
9 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 17 decks
10 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 14 decks

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

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.