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Dinosaur Egg

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

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Times Brought

270

Decks Running

133

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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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

Final zone distribution

78 instances

2.6%

Library

48.7%

Battlefield

21.8%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 82 decks
2 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 26 decks
3 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 3 decks
4 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 3 decks
5 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 3 decks
6 Doran, Besieged by Time 2 decks
7 Felothar the Steadfast 2 decks
8 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant 2 decks
9 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 2 decks
10 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

275 brought · 126 players

Brought to game

275

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=50) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=145).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=61

16%

10%

21%

10%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 25% (10 / 61 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 58%

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.