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Rishkar's Expertise

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

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Times Brought

3916

Decks Running

1780

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

774 instances

5.2%

Library

4.7%

Battlefield

44.6%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 257 decks
2 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 145 decks
3 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 69 decks
4 Tifa Lockhart 28 decks
5 Blor the Impervious 23 decks
6 The Ur-Dragon 22 decks
7 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 21 decks
8 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 20 decks
9 Witherbloom, the Balancer 20 decks
10 Beorn the Fierce 19 decks

The "good card" funnel

3919 brought · 1381 players

Brought to game

3919

Ever drawn

715

Reached battlefield

348

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=259) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=2293).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=269).

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 +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +6.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=348

17%

59%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 54% (82 / 348 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

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.