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Cartographer's Hawk

· Creature — Bird · Commander Masters (CMM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

106

Decks Running

In Decks

592

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Cartographer's Hawk

Creature — Bird

Flying When this creature deals combat damage to a player who controls more lands than you, return it to its owner's hand. If you do, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

2 / 1

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Donato Giancola

Final zone distribution

28 instances

3.6%

Library

10.7%

Battlefield

50.0%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Isperia, Supreme Judge 12 decks
2 Kastral, the Windcrested 8 decks
3 Commodore Guff 7 decks
4 Kathril, Aspect Warper 6 decks
5 Kangee, Sky Warden 5 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 2 decks
7 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 2 decks
8 Momo, Friendly Flier 2 decks
9 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 1 decks
10 Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

106 brought · 59 players

Brought to game

106

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 15% 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.

≥ -11.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=20) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=71).

Observed gap +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval -11.2pp to +31.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

25%

10%

15%

35%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 25% (5 / 20 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

20 of 100 times cast 20%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.