Live Play Data

Gixian Puppeteer

· Creature — Phyrexian Warlock · The Brothers' War (BRO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

188

Decks Running

103

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21

14%

10%

57%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 19% (3 / 21 cast on T4)

The "good card" funnel

192 brought · 103 players

Brought to game

192

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 24% 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.

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=18) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=111).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=20).

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 +18.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +41.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

50 instances

8.0%

Library

10.0%

Battlefield

46.0%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 29 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 14 decks
3 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 8 decks
4 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 5 decks
5 Zimone and Dina 5 decks
6 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor 4 decks
7 Queza, Augur of Agonies 3 decks
8 Seizan, Perverter of Truth 3 decks
9 Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader 3 decks
10 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 2 decks

Card text

Gixian Puppeteer

Creature — Phyrexian Warlock

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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The Brothers' War (BRO) · Rare · Illustrated by Bastien L. Deharme

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.