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Live Play Data
Desert of the Mindful
Land — Desert
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Commander 2021 (C21)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
261
Decks Running
131
Median Cast Turn
4.0
Drawn → Played
60%
Format
First-cast turn
n=50
10%
T1
14%
T2
10%
T3
18%
T4
12%
T5
32%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median
4.0
P25
3
· P75
6
· max
15
Cast same turn as drawn
40%
The "good card" funnel
261 brought · 122 playersBrought to game
261
Ever drawn
83
Reached battlefield
50
Still on board at game end
39
Once cast, 78% 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.
≥ -9.2pp
Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=45) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=147).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=30).
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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -9.2pp to +18.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
88 instances1.1%
Library
44.3%
Battlefield
33.0%
Graveyard
21.6%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Temmet, Naktamun's Will
30 decks
-
2
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
25 decks
-
3
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
9 decks
-
4
Gavi, Nest Warden
9 decks
-
5
Whtz, the Bibliophile
5 decks
-
6
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
3 decks
-
7
Vnwxt, Verbose Host
3 decks
-
8
Doctor Doom, King of Latveria
2 decks
-
9
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
2 decks
-
10
Hope Estheim
2 decks
Card text
Desert of the Mindful
Land — Desert
This land enters tapped.
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Cycling 
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, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Commander 2021 (C21)
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Common
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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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.