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Cavern of Souls

Land · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

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Times Brought

2776

Decks Running

1389

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

611 instances

3.1%

Library

71.0%

Battlefield

8.3%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 88 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 41 decks
3 The First Sliver 38 decks
4 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 33 decks
5 Edgar Markov 32 decks
6 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 30 decks
7 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 29 decks
8 Giada, Font of Hope 27 decks
9 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 23 decks
10 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 22 decks

The "good card" funnel

2788 brought · 912 players

Brought to game

2788

Ever drawn

559

Reached battlefield

467

Still on board at game end

434

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.

≥ -1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=372) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1631).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=74) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.0pp to +4.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=467

29%

16%

13%

10%

19%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 67%

3037 of 300 tracked games 99%

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.