Live Play Data

Ghoulcaller Gisa

· Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

353

Decks Running

168

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

43%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=114

11%

14%

26%

36%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 54% (30 / 114 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

353 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

353

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=36) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=215).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=48).

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 +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -8.7pp to +19.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

103 instances

1.0%

Library

23.3%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 16 decks
2 The Scarab God 13 decks
3 The Muckslinger Gang 8 decks
4 Yargle and Multani 8 decks
5 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 7 decks
6 Olag and Miau, New Friends 7 decks
7 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 7 decks
8 Gisa, the Hellraiser 6 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 6 decks
10 Varina, Lich Queen 6 decks

Card text

Ghoulcaller Gisa

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Karla Ortiz

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.