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Instant
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Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
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Crop Rotation
Times Brought
2918
Decks Running
1390
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.
Card text
Crop Rotation
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
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Uncommon
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Illustrated by DiTerlizzi
Final zone distribution
653 instances4.6%
Library
3.4%
Battlefield
61.4%
Graveyard
5.2%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Toph, the First Metalbender
63 decks
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2
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
59 decks
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3
Tifa Lockhart
45 decks
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4
Flubs, the Fool
39 decks
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5
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
33 decks
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6
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
33 decks
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7
Teval, the Balanced Scale
32 decks
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8
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
31 decks
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9
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
30 decks
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10
The Necrobloom
25 decks
The "good card" funnel
2932 brought · 1070 playersBrought to game
2932
Ever drawn
587
Reached battlefield
370
Still on board at game end
22
≥ +1.8pp
Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=293) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1658).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=166).
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 +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.8pp to +7.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=370
12%
T1
10%
T2
14%
T3
16%
T4
15%
T5
28%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median
4.0
P25
3
· P75
6
· max
17
On curve
12%
(43 / 370 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
45%
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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.