Live Play Data

Forgotten Cave

Land · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1133

Decks Running

580

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=177

30%

12%

10%

21%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 66%

The "good card" funnel

1134 brought · 512 players

Brought to game

1134

Ever drawn

278

Reached battlefield

177

Still on board at game end

126

Once cast, 71% 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 29% of the time (n=156) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=690).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=94).

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 +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

313 instances

3.8%

Library

40.3%

Battlefield

37.1%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 60 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 53 decks
3 Zada, Hedron Grinder 44 decks
4 Abaddon the Despoiler 34 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 20 decks
6 Disa the Restless 14 decks
7 Anje Falkenrath 11 decks
8 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 11 decks
9 Gavi, Nest Warden 11 decks
10 Quintorius, History Chaser 10 decks

Card text

Forgotten Cave

Land

This land enters tapped. {T}

: Add

. Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Commander 2021 (C21) · Common · Illustrated by Tony Szczudlo

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.