Live Play Data

Rishkar's Expertise

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2891

Decks Running

1413

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=320

11%

67%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 27

On curve 40% (69 / 320 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

2895 brought · 1082 players

Brought to game

2895

Ever drawn

627

Reached battlefield

320

Still on board at game end

≥ +11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=294) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1896).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=280).

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 +17.3pp; 95% confidence interval +11.7pp to +22.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

713 instances

4.3%

Library

2.8%

Battlefield

53.9%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 109 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 42 decks
3 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 34 decks
4 Beorn the Fierce 23 decks
5 Witherbloom, the Balancer 21 decks
6 Blor the Impervious 19 decks
7 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 19 decks
8 Xenagos, God of Revels 19 decks
9 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 18 decks
10 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 16 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.