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Cryptic Caves
Land
·
Foundations (FDN)
0%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
96
Decks Running
61
In Decks
448
Decklist Inclusion
0%
Format
Card text
Cryptic Caves
Land
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, , Sacrifice this land: Draw a card. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Foundations (FDN)
·
Uncommon
·
Illustrated by Sung Choi
Final zone distribution
28 instancesNot enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
7 decks
-
2
Giada, Font of Hope
3 decks
- 3 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth 3 decks
-
4
Braids, Conjurer Adept
2 decks
-
5
Krenko, Mob Boss
2 decks
-
6
Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor
2 decks
-
7
Ranar the Ever-Watchful
2 decks
-
8
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
2 decks
-
9
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
2 decks
- 10 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger 2 decks
The "good card" funnel
96 brought · 60 playersBrought to game
96
Ever drawn
26
Reached battlefield
22
Still on board at game end
13
Once cast, 59% 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.
≥ -4.4pp
Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=19) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=58).
Observed gap +15.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.4pp to +35.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=22
9%
T1
5%
T2
32%
T3
9%
T4
14%
T5
23%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median
4.0
P25
3
· P75
8
· max
14
Cast same turn as drawn
48%
22 of 100 times cast
22%
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.