Live Play Data

Gilded Lotus

· Artifact · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5410

Decks Running

2155

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=919

14%

20%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 40% (187 / 919 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

5412 brought · 1658 players

Brought to game

5412

Ever drawn

1314

Reached battlefield

919

Still on board at game end

753

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.

≥ +9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=876) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=3630).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=364).

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 +12.5pp; 95% confidence interval +9.3pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1451 instances

3.5%

Library

51.9%

Battlefield

18.5%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 231 decks
2 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 198 decks
3 Szarekh, the Silent King 114 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 47 decks
5 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 37 decks
6 Imotekh the Stormlord 33 decks
7 Whtz, the Bibliophile 31 decks
8 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 28 decks
9 Trazyn the Infinite 25 decks
10 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 22 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.