Live Play Data

Dinosaur Egg

· Creature — Dinosaur Egg · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

542

Decks Running

238

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

85%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=145

17%

14%

13%

34%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 19% (25 / 145 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

The "good card" funnel

542 brought · 218 players

Brought to game

542

Ever drawn

171

Reached battlefield

145

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ +2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=133) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=314).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=26).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +2.5pp to +19.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

177 instances

2.8%

Library

35.0%

Battlefield

42.4%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 141 decks
2 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 51 decks
3 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 10 decks
4 Jegantha, the Wellspring 5 decks
5 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 4 decks
6 Felothar the Steadfast 3 decks
7 Ashaya's Enduring Bond 2 decks
8 Blue, Loyal Raptor 2 decks
9 Maular, the Next Evolution 2 decks
10 Sauron, Dino Devotee 2 decks

Card text

Dinosaur Egg

Creature — Dinosaur Egg

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) When this creature dies, you may discover X, where X is its toughness.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Alessandra Pisano

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.