Live Play Data

Deserted Temple

Land · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1111

Decks Running

495

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=221

12%

17%

13%

17%

12%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 51%

The "good card" funnel

1111 brought · 421 players

Brought to game

1111

Ever drawn

283

Reached battlefield

221

Still on board at game end

202

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ +6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=207) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=679).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=52).

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 +13.5pp; 95% confidence interval +6.8pp to +20.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

311 instances

2.6%

Library

65.0%

Battlefield

12.5%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 41 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 34 decks
3 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 27 decks
4 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 17 decks
5 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 13 decks
6 Toph, the First Metalbender 12 decks
7 Karn, Legacy Reforged 10 decks
8 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 10 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 10 decks
10 The Wandering Minstrel 10 decks

Card text

Deserted Temple

Land

: Add

: Untap target land.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Rob Alexander

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.