Live Play Data

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

· Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Avatar · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

518

Decks Running

225

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=339

22%

60%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 87% (39 / 339 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

518 brought · 211 players

Brought to game

518

Ever drawn

175

Reached battlefield

123

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=111) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=287).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=52).

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 +14.6pp; 95% confidence interval +5.0pp to +24.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

188 instances

7.4%

Library

33.5%

Battlefield

25.5%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 158 decks
2 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 41 decks
3 Zacama, Primal Calamity 8 decks
4 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 6 decks
5 Maular, the Next Evolution 5 decks
6 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People 3 decks
7 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 1 decks
8 Grimlock, Dinobot Leader // Grimlock, Ferocious King 1 decks
9 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper 1 decks
10 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 1 decks

Card text

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Avatar

Vigilance, trample, haste Whenever Gishath deals combat damage to a player, reveal that many cards from the top of your library. Put any number of Dinosaur creature cards from among them onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Mythic · Illustrated by Zack Stella

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.