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Breeding Pool

Land — Forest Island · Star Trek (TRK)
Times Brought
5521
Decks Running
2697
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

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

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Breeding Pool card

Breeding Pool

Land — Forest Island
({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Star Trek (TRK) · Rare · Illustrated by Cliff Nielsen

Final zone distribution

1718 instances
2.9%
Library
76.6%
Battlefield
6.6%
Graveyard
3.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

5526 brought · 1764 players
Brought to game
5526
Ever drawn
1613
Reached battlefield
1388
Still on board at game end
1316

Once cast, 95% 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.

≥ +1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=1110) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2826).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=184).

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 +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +5.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=1388
31%
T1
15%
T2
12%
T3
10%
T4
8%
T5
20%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 17
Cast same turn as drawn 68%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.