Live Play Data

Mystic Gate

Land · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1068

Decks Running

519

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=222

12%

16%

12%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 50%

The "good card" funnel

1071 brought · 456 players

Brought to game

1071

Ever drawn

299

Reached battlefield

222

Still on board at game end

204

Once cast, 92% 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.

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=208) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=655).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=68).

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 +0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +7.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

326 instances

3.7%

Library

62.6%

Battlefield

12.6%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Mystic Gate

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

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.