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Goring Ceratops

· Creature — Dinosaur · Ixalan (XLN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

159

Decks Running

In Decks

380

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Goring Ceratops

Creature — Dinosaur

Double strike Whenever this creature attacks, other creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn.

3 / 3

Ixalan (XLN) · Rare · Illustrated by Zezhou Chen

Final zone distribution

46 instances

13.0%

Library

37.0%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 41 decks
2 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 16 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 11 decks
4 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 2 decks
5 Zacama, Primal Calamity 2 decks
6 Arahbo, the First Fang 1 decks
7 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People 1 decks
8 Omnath, Locus of All 1 decks
9 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

159 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

159

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ +12.0pp

Players who cast this card win 55% of the time (n=25) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=103).

Observed gap +30.8pp; 95% confidence interval +12.0pp to +49.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

20%

64%

T6-9

T10+

Median 8 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 11

On curve 44% (3 / 25 cast on T7)

25 of 100 times cast 25%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.