Live Play Data
Arid Mesa
Land
·
Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
10%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
8657
Decks Running
3981
Median Cast Turn
3
Drawn → Played
73%
Format
First-cast turn
n=1559
28%
T1
13%
T2
12%
T3
11%
T4
10%
T5
23%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median
3
P25
1
· P75
6
· max
20
Cast same turn as drawn
61%
The "good card" funnel
8662 brought · 2153 playersBrought to game
8662
Ever drawn
2145
Reached battlefield
1559
Still on board at game end
117
Once cast, 8% 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.
≥ +1.8pp
Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=1407) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=5389).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=525).
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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.8pp to +6.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
2443 instances3.4%
Library
4.8%
Battlefield
66.6%
Graveyard
11.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
The Ur-Dragon
122 decks
-
2
Edgar Markov
96 decks
-
3
Kaalia of the Vast
78 decks
-
4
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER
73 decks
-
5
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
69 decks
-
6
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
62 decks
-
7
Toph, the First Metalbender
59 decks
-
8
Jodah, the Unifier
51 decks
-
9
Mr. House, President and CEO
50 decks
-
10
Baylen, the Haymaker
42 decks
Card text
Arid Mesa
Land
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
·
Rare
·
Illustrated by Raymond Swanland
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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.