Live Play Data

Talon Gates of Madara

Land — Gate · Stardates (SDS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3447

Decks Running

1378

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=706

14%

15%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

3449 brought · 973 players

Brought to game

3449

Ever drawn

925

Reached battlefield

706

Still on board at game end

614

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ +4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=648) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=2064).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=196).

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 +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval +4.1pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1035 instances

3.3%

Library

59.3%

Battlefield

14.5%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Omo, Queen of Vesuva 61 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 46 decks
3 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 40 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 22 decks
5 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 22 decks
6 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 22 decks
7 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 19 decks
8 Deadpool, Trading Card 17 decks
9 Nine-Fingers Keene 17 decks
10 Teval, the Balanced Scale 15 decks

Card text

Talon Gates of Madara

Land — Gate

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out. {T}

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. {4}

: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Stardates (SDS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Jonathan Bartlett

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.