Live Play Data

Gilded Lotus

· Artifact · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4245

Decks Running

1762

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=715

16%

22%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 48% (154 / 715 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

4247 brought · 1389 players

Brought to game

4247

Ever drawn

1027

Reached battlefield

715

Still on board at game end

588

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.

≥ +7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=634) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=2675).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=273).

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 +11.6pp; 95% confidence interval +7.8pp to +15.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1139 instances

4.0%

Library

51.6%

Battlefield

18.9%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 201 decks
2 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 166 decks
3 Szarekh, the Silent King 91 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 42 decks
5 Imotekh the Stormlord 30 decks
6 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 30 decks
7 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 26 decks
8 Whtz, the Bibliophile 25 decks
9 Trazyn the Infinite 22 decks
10 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 18 decks

Card text

Gilded Lotus

Artifact

: Add three mana of any one color.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Domenico Cava

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.