Live Play Data

Rishkar's Expertise

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

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4170

Decks Running

1965

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=465

13%

66%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 27

On curve 44% (100 / 465 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

4174 brought · 1496 players

Brought to game

4174

Ever drawn

914

Reached battlefield

465

Still on board at game end

≥ +11.0pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=424) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2720).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=409).

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 +15.6pp; 95% confidence interval +11.0pp to +20.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1029 instances

4.4%

Library

2.8%

Battlefield

52.6%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 148 decks
2 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 144 decks
3 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 53 decks
4 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 28 decks
5 Beorn the Fierce 27 decks
6 Blor the Impervious 27 decks
7 Witherbloom, the Balancer 26 decks
8 Xenagos, God of Revels 22 decks
9 Radagast of Rhosgobel 21 decks
10 Tifa Lockhart 21 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.