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Game Changer
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#8 in Colorless Commander Staples
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Glacial Chasm
Land
·
Masters Edition II (ME2)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
183
Decks Running
78
In Decks
623
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
57 instances3.5%
Library
31.6%
Battlefield
40.4%
Graveyard
7.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
10 decks
-
2
Teval, the Balanced Scale
7 decks
-
3
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
4 decks
-
4
The Necrobloom
4 decks
-
5
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
3 decks
-
6
Flubs, the Fool
3 decks
-
7
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
2 decks
-
8
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
2 decks
-
9
Heartless Hidetsugu
2 decks
-
10
Maralen of the Mornsong
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
183 brought · 70 playersBrought to game
183
Ever drawn
52
Reached battlefield
38
Still on board at game end
18
Once cast, 47% 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.
≥ +2.9pp
Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=37) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=116).
Observed gap +19.1pp; 95% confidence interval +2.9pp to +35.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=38
0%
T1
3%
T2
5%
T3
3%
T4
26%
T5
50%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
13
Cast same turn as drawn
39%
38 of 100 times cast
38%
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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.