Live Play Data

The Cruelty of Gix

· Enchantment — Saga · Dominaria United (DMU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

259

Decks Running

130

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=39

10%

13%

59%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 28% (5 / 39 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

260 brought · 121 players

Brought to game

260

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ +6.4pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=36) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=150).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=35).

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 +21.8pp; 95% confidence interval +6.4pp to +37.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

83 instances

7.2%

Library

16.9%

Battlefield

42.2%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 56 decks
2 Narci, Fable Singer 12 decks
3 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 7 decks
4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 4 decks
5 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 2 decks
6 Indominus Rex, Alpha 2 decks
7 Omnath, Locus of All 2 decks
8 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 2 decks
9 The Wise Mothman 2 decks
10 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 2 decks

Card text

The Cruelty of Gix

Enchantment — Saga

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card. II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Dominaria United (DMU) · Rare · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

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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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.