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Diamond Pick-Axe

· Artifact — Equipment · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

425

Decks Running

218

In Decks

1262

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Diamond Pick-Axe

Artifact — Equipment

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this Equipment.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Equip {2}

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Dibujante Nocturno

Final zone distribution

106 instances

1.9%

Library

63.2%

Battlefield

14.2%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

431 brought · 206 players

Brought to game

431

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 84% 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 22% of the time (n=72) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=279).

Observed gap -1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -11.7pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=80

30%

13%

14%

10%

21%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.5 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 30% (24 / 80 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 68%

80 of 100 times cast 80%

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.