Live Play Data

Apex Altisaur

· Creature — Dinosaur · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2047

Decks Running

804

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=366

12%

69%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 89% (42 / 366 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

2047 brought · 698 players

Brought to game

2047

Ever drawn

557

Reached battlefield

366

Still on board at game end

152

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ +11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=325) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1228).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=171).

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 +16.8pp; 95% confidence interval +11.3pp to +22.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

605 instances

5.3%

Library

25.1%

Battlefield

34.7%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 258 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 129 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 56 decks
4 Kona, Rescue Beastie 28 decks
5 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 28 decks
6 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 23 decks
7 Radagast of Rhosgobel 14 decks
8 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 13 decks
9 Maular, the Next Evolution 12 decks
10 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 11 decks

Card text

Apex Altisaur

Creature — Dinosaur

When this creature enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.

10 / 10

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Simon Dominic

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.