Live Play Data

Curious Altisaur

· Creature — Dinosaur · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

919

Decks Running

462

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=193

11%

20%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 24% (22 / 193 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

919 brought · 424 players

Brought to game

919

Ever drawn

251

Reached battlefield

193

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ +0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=174) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=556).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=54).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +14.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

270 instances

3.0%

Library

35.6%

Battlefield

37.4%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 195 decks
2 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 101 decks
3 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 97 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 12 decks
5 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 11 decks
6 Blue, Loyal Raptor 9 decks
7 Sauron, Dino Devotee 9 decks
8 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 5 decks
9 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 5 decks
10 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 3 decks

Card text

Curious Altisaur

Creature — Dinosaur

Reach, vigilance Whenever a Dinosaur you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Simon Dominic

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.