Live Play Data

Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

· Legendary Creature — Angel · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1646

Decks Running

580

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=307

12%

60%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 61% (58 / 307 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

1646 brought · 559 players

Brought to game

1646

Ever drawn

408

Reached battlefield

285

Still on board at game end

174

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ +12.9pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=263) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1084).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=106).

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 +19.1pp; 95% confidence interval +12.9pp to +25.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

442 instances

3.6%

Library

39.4%

Battlefield

25.3%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 160 decks
2 Queen Marchesa 67 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 30 decks
4 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 28 decks
5 Lightning, Army of One 27 decks
6 Seluma, Light of Aysen 20 decks
7 Nissa, Leyline Tamer 14 decks
8 Maular, the Next Evolution 13 decks
9 Aurelia, the Warleader 12 decks
10 Jace, Multiverse Architect 12 decks

Card text

Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

Legendary Creature — Angel

Flying, first strike If a source would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, that source deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead. If a source would deal damage to you or a permanent you control, prevent half that damage, rounded up.

5 / 5

Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Jason Chan

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.