Live Play Data

Ancient Ziggurat

Land · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1214

Decks Running

490

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=238

13%

12%

16%

10%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

Cast same turn as drawn 54%

The "good card" funnel

1214 brought · 450 players

Brought to game

1214

Ever drawn

296

Reached battlefield

238

Still on board at game end

217

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ +2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=208) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=737).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=46).

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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.3pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

340 instances

3.5%

Library

63.8%

Battlefield

17.1%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Ancient Ziggurat

Land

: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by John Avon

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.