Live Play Data

Cavern of Souls

Land · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

8740

Decks Running

3856

Median Cast Turn

3.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1682

25%

12%

14%

10%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 63%

The "good card" funnel

8742 brought · 2230 players

Brought to game

8742

Ever drawn

2090

Reached battlefield

1682

Still on board at game end

1568

Once cast, 93% 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 30% of the time (n=1522) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=5506).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=350).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +6.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2329 instances

3.2%

Library

67.3%

Battlefield

11.5%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 167 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 89 decks
3 Edgar Markov 88 decks
4 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 87 decks
5 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 83 decks
6 Giada, Font of Hope 82 decks
7 The First Sliver 59 decks
8 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 55 decks
9 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 52 decks
10 Ashling, the Limitless 46 decks

Card text

Cavern of Souls

Land

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Mythic · Illustrated by Alayna Danner

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.