Live Play Data

Gifts Ungiven

· Instant · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

411

Decks Running

207

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=63

17%

29%

37%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 24% (11 / 63 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

411 brought · 197 players

Brought to game

411

Ever drawn

115

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=60) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=230).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=47).

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 +18.0pp; 95% confidence interval +5.0pp to +30.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

142 instances

4.2%

Library

0.7%

Battlefield

57.7%

Graveyard

11.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 13 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 11 decks
3 Thranduil, the Elvenking 10 decks
4 Teval, the Balanced Scale 7 decks
5 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 6 decks
6 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 4 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 decks
8 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 4 decks
9 Whtz, the Bibliophile 4 decks
10 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 3 decks

Card text

Gifts Ungiven

Instant

Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.

Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Rallis

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.