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The Cruelty of Gix

· Enchantment — Saga · Dominaria United (DMU)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

130

Decks Running

In Decks

522

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

41 instances

9.8%

Library

12.2%

Battlefield

41.5%

Graveyard

2.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 27 decks
2 Narci, Fable Singer 5 decks
3 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 4 decks
4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 3 decks
5 Indominus Rex, Alpha 2 decks
6 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 2 decks
7 Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal 2 decks
8 Aminatou, the Fateshifter 1 decks
9 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 1 decks
10 Astarion, the Decadent 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

131 brought · 65 players

Brought to game

131

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

16 of 100 times cast 16%

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.