Live Play Data

Simic Guildgate

Land — Gate · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

606

Decks Running

280

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

83%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=167

18%

10%

41%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 24

Cast same turn as drawn 71%

The "good card" funnel

606 brought · 253 players

Brought to game

606

Ever drawn

202

Reached battlefield

167

Still on board at game end

155

Once cast, 93% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=158) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=339).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=30).

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 +19.5pp; 95% confidence interval +11.3pp to +27.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

218 instances

1.8%

Library

71.1%

Battlefield

13.3%

Graveyard

1.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Simic Guildgate

Land — Gate

This land enters tapped. {T}

: Add

Foundations (FDN) · Common · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

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.