Live Play Data

Dunes of the Dead

Land — Desert · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

151

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

90%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46

13%

24%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 47%

The "good card" funnel

151 brought · 83 players

Brought to game

151

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=39) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=82).

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 +14.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +31.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances

42.9%

Battlefield

41.1%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

7.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Yuma, Proud Protector 27 decks
2 Hazezon, Shaper of Sand 23 decks
3 Baba Lysaga, Night Witch 5 decks
4 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 5 decks
5 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 3 decks
6 Kirri, Talented Sprout 2 decks
7 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah // Ajani, Nacatl Avenger 1 decks
8 Azusa, Lost but Seeking 1 decks
9 Braids, Cabal Minion 1 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks

Card text

Dunes of the Dead

Land — Desert

: Add

. When this land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by E. M. Gist

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.