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Giant Ankheg

· Creature — Insect · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

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Times Brought

189

Decks Running

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

Giant Ankheg

Creature — Insect

Trample Ward {2}

(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}

.) Other creatures you control have trample and ward {2}

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Dave Kendall

Final zone distribution

50 instances

2.0%

Library

46.0%

Battlefield

16.0%

Graveyard

2.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kona, Rescue Beastie 14 decks
2 Grist, the Hunger Tide 5 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 3 decks
4 Nikya of the Old Ways 3 decks
5 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed 3 decks
6 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord 3 decks
7 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler 3 decks
8 Amzu, Swarm's Hunger 2 decks
9 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 2 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

190 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

190

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ +3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=19) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=110).

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 +13.3pp; 95% confidence interval +3.6pp to +23.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

14%

68%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 82% (6 / 28 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

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.