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Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

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

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Times Brought

817

Decks Running

351

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

171 instances

3.5%

Library

44.4%

Battlefield

13.5%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

821 brought · 324 players

Brought to game

821

Ever drawn

166

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ +7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=82) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=466).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=55).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval +7.9pp to +17.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=108

17%

60%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 70% (19 / 108 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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.