Live Play Data

Desert of the Mindful

Land — Desert · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

398

Decks Running

178

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=71

17%

13%

10%

14%

10%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

398 brought · 160 players

Brought to game

398

Ever drawn

116

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ -10.4pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=65) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=235).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=38).

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 +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -10.4pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

123 instances

2.4%

Library

47.2%

Battlefield

28.5%

Graveyard

0.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 41 decks
2 Omo, Queen of Vesuva 31 decks
3 Gavi, Nest Warden 13 decks
4 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 9 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 8 decks
6 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 6 decks
7 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 4 decks
8 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 3 decks
9 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 3 decks
10 Varina, Lich Queen 3 decks

Card text

Desert of the Mindful

Land — Desert

This land enters tapped. {T}

: Add

. Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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

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.