Live Play Data

Cactus Preserve

Land — Desert · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

372

Decks Running

194

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=88

22%

14%

15%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 58%

The "good card" funnel

372 brought · 183 players

Brought to game

372

Ever drawn

121

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=77) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=203).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 47% (n=28).

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 +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

137 instances

2.2%

Library

53.3%

Battlefield

19.0%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Cactus Preserve

Land — Desert

This land enters tapped. {T}

: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. {3}

: Until end of turn, this land becomes an X/X green Plant creature with reach, where X is the greatest mana value among your commanders. It's still a land.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jonas De Ro

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.