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Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

{1} {B} {B} · Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
Times Brought
214
Decks Running
120
In Decks
Decklist Inclusion
Format

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

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Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor card

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

{1} {B} {B}
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card. {4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Anna Podedworna

Final zone distribution

34 instances
26.5%
Battlefield
41.2%
Graveyard
5.9%
Exile
26.5%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

214 brought · 116 players
Brought to game
214
Ever drawn
34
Reached battlefield
20
Still on board at game end
9

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -19.4pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=17) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=136).

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 -6.6pp; 95% confidence interval -19.4pp to +6.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22
0%
T1
5%
T2
14%
T3
27%
T4
9%
T5
32%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 20
On curve 18% (3 / 22 cast on T3)

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.