Live Play Data

Rishkar's Expertise

· Sorcery · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

6054

Decks Running

2565

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=681

14%

66%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 27

On curve 42% (138 / 681 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

6058 brought · 1925 players

Brought to game

6058

Ever drawn

1334

Reached battlefield

681

Still on board at game end

≥ +14.2pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=605) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=3945).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=583).

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 +18.2pp; 95% confidence interval +14.2pp to +22.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1495 instances

4.5%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

51.6%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 248 decks
2 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 184 decks
3 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 73 decks
4 Blor the Impervious 37 decks
5 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 33 decks
6 Aerid Konstrari 32 decks
7 Beorn the Fierce 32 decks
8 Witherbloom, the Balancer 32 decks
9 Radagast of Rhosgobel 30 decks
10 Xenagos, God of Revels 28 decks

Card text

Rishkar's Expertise

Sorcery

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.