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Rishkar's Expertise

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

717

Decks Running

385

In Decks

3166

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

182 instances

3.3%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

52.2%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 35 decks
2 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 10 decks
3 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 10 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 10 decks
5 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 9 decks
6 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 9 decks
7 Quandrix, the Proof 9 decks
8 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 7 decks
9 T'Challa, the Black Panther 7 decks
10 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

720 brought · 307 players

Brought to game

720

Ever drawn

159

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.9pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=76) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=501).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=81) — 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 +17.8pp; 95% confidence interval +6.9pp to +28.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=78

76%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 35% (17 / 78 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

78 of 100 times cast 78%

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.