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The Cruelty of Gix

{3} {B} {B} · Enchantment — Saga · Dominaria United (DMU)
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Times Brought
193
Decks Running
103
In Decks
—
Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text
The Cruelty of Gix card

The Cruelty of Gix

{3} {B} {B}
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

50 instances
2.0%
Library
22.0%
Battlefield
48.0%
Graveyard
10.0%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

193 brought · 98 players
Brought to game
193
Ever drawn
40
Reached battlefield
29
Still on board at game end
11

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=26) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=95).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +19.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29
0%
T1
3%
T2
3%
T3
7%
T4
14%
T5
48%
T6-9
24%
T10+
Median 8 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14
On curve 28% (4 / 29 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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.