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Mystic Gate

Land · Commander Masters (CMM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

538

Decks Running

278

In Decks

2062

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Mystic Gate

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Fred Fields

Final zone distribution

159 instances

2.5%

Library

64.2%

Battlefield

12.6%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 17 decks
2 Commodore Guff 15 decks
3 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 13 decks
4 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 13 decks
5 Hope Estheim 10 decks
6 Brago, King Eternal 7 decks
7 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 7 decks
8 Captain America, Living Legend 6 decks
9 Kastral, the Windcrested 6 decks
10 Niko, Light of Hope 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

541 brought · 257 players

Brought to game

541

Ever drawn

146

Reached battlefield

109

Still on board at game end

102

Once cast, 94% 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.

≥ -3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=100) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=326).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=30) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -3.5pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=109

13%

18%

16%

28%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 53%

530 of 300 tracked games 99%

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.