Live Play Data

Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2078

Decks Running

721

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=396

13%

61%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 62% (77 / 396 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

2078 brought · 688 players

Brought to game

2078

Ever drawn

525

Reached battlefield

361

Still on board at game end

216

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ +14.3pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=333) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1359).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=141).

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 +19.7pp; 95% confidence interval +14.3pp to +25.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

568 instances

3.5%

Library

38.0%

Battlefield

25.7%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 189 decks
2 Queen Marchesa 75 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 40 decks
4 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 39 decks
5 Lightning, Army of One 32 decks
6 Seluma, Light of Aysen 29 decks
7 Nissa, Leyline Tamer 25 decks
8 Jace, Multiverse Architect 23 decks
9 Maular, the Next Evolution 18 decks
10 Aurelia, the Warleader 15 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.

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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 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.