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Gifts Ungiven

· Instant · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

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Times Brought

183

Decks Running

105

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

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

Final zone distribution

43 instances

4.7%

Library

2.3%

Battlefield

51.2%

Graveyard

16.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 11 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 8 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 7 decks
4 Sliver Overlord 5 decks
5 Teval, the Balanced Scale 5 decks
6 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 3 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
8 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 3 decks
9 Aragorn, the Uniter 2 decks
10 Iroh, Grand Lotus 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

183 brought · 103 players

Brought to game

183

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=17) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=104).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=16) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +10.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +22.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

40%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 45% (8 / 20 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

20 of 100 times cast 20%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.