Live Play Data

Arid Mesa

Land · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3383

Decks Running

1718

Median Cast Turn

3.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=600

28%

13%

12%

11%

10%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 17

Cast same turn as drawn 60%

The "good card" funnel

3386 brought · 1005 players

Brought to game

3386

Ever drawn

838

Reached battlefield

600

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 7% 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.

≥ -0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=544) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2127).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=213).

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 +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -0.6pp to +7.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

946 instances

3.1%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

66.9%

Graveyard

11.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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