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Desert of the Mindful

Land — Desert · Commander 2021 (C21)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

177

Decks Running

In Decks

719

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Desert of the Mindful

Land — Desert

This land enters tapped. {T}

: Add

. Cycling

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, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Commander 2021 (C21) · Common · Illustrated by Christine Choi

Final zone distribution

61 instances

1.6%

Library

44.3%

Battlefield

34.4%

Graveyard

19.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 18 decks
2 Omo, Queen of Vesuva 15 decks
3 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 8 decks
4 Gavi, Nest Warden 5 decks
5 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 3 decks
6 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 2 decks
7 Hope Estheim 2 decks
8 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 1 decks
9 Baral and Kari Zev 1 decks
10 Brallin, Skyshark Rider 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

177 brought · 79 players

Brought to game

177

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=32) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=97).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=22) — 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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -11.7pp to +19.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

14%

11%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 47%

36 of 100 times cast 36%

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.