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Bayou

Land — Swamp Forest · Vintage Masters (VMA)

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Times Brought

696

Decks Running

314

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.

Card text

Bayou

Land — Swamp Forest

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Vintage Masters (VMA) · Rare · Illustrated by Karl Kopinski

Final zone distribution

257 instances

1.9%

Library

83.7%

Battlefield

6.6%

Graveyard

1.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 34 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 13 decks
3 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 12 decks
4 Najeela, the Blade-Blossom 9 decks
5 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 8 decks
6 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 7 decks
7 Teval, the Balanced Scale 7 decks
8 The Gitrog Monster 7 decks
9 The Wise Mothman 7 decks
10 Kenrith, the Returned King 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

696 brought · 253 players

Brought to game

696

Ever drawn

246

Reached battlefield

229

Still on board at game end

215

Once cast, 94% 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.

≥ -4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=188) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=326).

Observed gap -0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -4.9pp to +3.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=229

32%

14%

15%

12%

16%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 73%

850 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.