Live Play Data

Gifts Ungiven

· Instant · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

618

Decks Running

297

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=94

18%

23%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 28% (17 / 94 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

618 brought · 282 players

Brought to game

618

Ever drawn

167

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=89) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=348).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=64).

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 +17.5pp; 95% confidence interval +7.1pp to +28.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

205 instances

3.9%

Library

1.0%

Battlefield

55.1%

Graveyard

13.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 18 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 16 decks
3 Thranduil, the Elvenking 16 decks
4 Teval, the Balanced Scale 10 decks
5 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 8 decks
6 Tymna the Weaver 6 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 5 decks
8 Sliver Overlord 5 decks
9 Whtz, the Bibliophile 5 decks
10 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 4 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 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.