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Legendary Creature — Merfolk Noble
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
Live Play Data
Emperor Mihail II
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Legendary Creature — Merfolk Noble
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
329
Decks Running
160
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
70%
Format
First-cast turn
n=59
0%
T1
7%
T2
15%
T3
7%
T4
14%
T5
47%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median
6
P25
4
· P75
9
· max
19
On curve
22%
(9 / 59 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
40%
The "good card" funnel
329 brought · 147 playersBrought to game
329
Ever drawn
81
Reached battlefield
57
Still on board at game end
33
Once cast, 58% 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.
≥ +1.1pp
Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=53) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=203).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=22).
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 +13.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +26.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
87 instances3.4%
Library
37.9%
Battlefield
35.6%
Graveyard
1.1%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hakbal of the Surging Soul
114 decks
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2
Namor the Sub-Mariner
15 decks
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3
Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
6 decks
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4
Svyelun of Sea and Sky
5 decks
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5
Grandmother Goby
2 decks
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6
Namor, Atlantean King
2 decks
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7
Sygg, River Guide
2 decks
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8
Tuvasa the Sunlit
2 decks
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9
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
1 decks
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10
Alandra, Sky Dreamer
1 decks
Card text
Emperor Mihail II
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Noble
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast Merfolk spells from the top of your library.
Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may pay . If you do, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token.
. If you do, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token.3 / 3
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
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Rare
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Illustrated by PINDURSKI
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.