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Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

524

Decks Running

230

In Decks

1690

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

147 instances

2.0%

Library

39.5%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 58 decks
2 Lightning, Army of One 19 decks
3 Queen Marchesa 18 decks
4 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 13 decks
5 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 10 decks
6 Brion Stoutarm 6 decks
7 General Ferrous Rokiric 6 decks
8 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 5 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 5 decks
10 Karlach, Fury of Avernus 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

524 brought · 218 players

Brought to game

524

Ever drawn

131

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ +15.2pp

Players who cast this card win 51% of the time (n=88) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=339).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 12% (n=34) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +25.7pp; 95% confidence interval +15.2pp to +36.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=94

11%

64%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 57% (15 / 94 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

94 of 100 times cast 94%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.