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Cavern of Souls

Land · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Times Brought
7333
Decks Running
3435
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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Cavern of Souls card

Cavern of Souls

Land
As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: 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

Final zone distribution

1656 instances
2.8%
Library
74.3%
Battlefield
7.6%
Graveyard
4.2%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

7355 brought · 2020 players
Brought to game
7355
Ever drawn
1529
Reached battlefield
1299
Still on board at game end
1230

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.

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=1008) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=4153).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=175).

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 +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +3.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=1299
31%
T1
15%
T2
13%
T3
10%
T4
9%
T5
19%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 3 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 17
Cast same turn as drawn 67%

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.