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Rishkar's Expertise

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

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Times Brought

1316

Decks Running

630

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

279 instances

6.1%

Library

4.3%

Battlefield

43.0%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1319 brought · 515 players

Brought to game

1319

Ever drawn

260

Reached battlefield

118

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=100) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=795).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=113) — 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 +2.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +7.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=118

15%

17%

58%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 55% (24 / 118 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

1666 of 300 tracked games 99%

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.