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Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon

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

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Times Brought

338

Decks Running

164

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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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

Final zone distribution

71 instances

1.4%

Library

53.5%

Battlefield

18.3%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

338 brought · 155 players

Brought to game

338

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=38) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=219).

Observed gap +11.5pp; 95% confidence interval +3.5pp to +19.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=43

23%

21%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 30% (10 / 43 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

43 of 100 times cast 43%

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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.