Live Play Data

Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon

· Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

677

Decks Running

324

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=116

19%

16%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 28% (22 / 116 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

679 brought · 294 players

Brought to game

679

Ever drawn

151

Reached battlefield

111

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=101) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=455).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=34).

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 +15.3pp; 95% confidence interval +6.1pp to +24.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

167 instances

2.4%

Library

38.9%

Battlefield

26.3%

Graveyard

11.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 49 decks
2 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 39 decks
3 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 33 decks
4 Baylen, the Haymaker 23 decks
5 Zurgo Stormrender 18 decks
6 Fire Lord Zuko 11 decks
7 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 10 decks
8 Jetmir, Nexus of Revels 7 decks
9 Kilo, Apogee Mind 7 decks
10 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 7 decks

Card text

Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Whenever you attack with one or more non-Gnome creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Anim Pakal, then create X 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens that are tapped and attacking, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Anim Pakal.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.