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Live Play Data

Gisa, the Hellraiser

{3} {B} {B} · Legendary Creature — Human Warlock · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
429
Decks Running
205
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
53%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=99
2%
T1
0%
T2
21%
T3
12%
T4
21%
T5
33%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15
On curve 57% (21 / 99 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

429 brought · 188 players
Brought to game
429
Ever drawn
93
Reached battlefield
49
Still on board at game end
21

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -10.4pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=45) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=288).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=34).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -10.4pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

98 instances
2.0%
Library
21.4%
Battlefield
32.7%
Graveyard
6.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Gisa, the Hellraiser card

Gisa, the Hellraiser

{3} {B} {B}
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
Ward—{2}, Pay 2 life. Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace. Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
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Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.