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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

708

Decks Running

282

In Decks

1877

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

193 instances

2.6%

Library

40.9%

Battlefield

28.5%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 73 decks
2 Queen Marchesa 24 decks
3 Lightning, Army of One 19 decks
4 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 16 decks
5 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 11 decks
6 General Ferrous Rokiric 8 decks
7 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight 7 decks
8 Mayael the Anima 7 decks
9 Brion Stoutarm 6 decks
10 Saskia the Unyielding 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

708 brought · 269 players

Brought to game

708

Ever drawn

167

Reached battlefield

120

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +13.3pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=110) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=458).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=45) — 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 +22.5pp; 95% confidence interval +13.3pp to +31.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=120

15%

62%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 63% (21 / 120 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

688 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.