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Forgotten Cave

Land · Commander 2021 (C21)

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Times Brought

488

Decks Running

284

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.

Card text

Forgotten Cave

Land

This land enters tapped. {T}

: Add

. Cycling

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

Final zone distribution

110 instances

1.8%

Library

63.6%

Battlefield

19.1%

Graveyard

1.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 41 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 39 decks
3 Zada, Hedron Grinder 33 decks
4 Abaddon the Despoiler 16 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 11 decks
6 Neyali, Suns' Vanguard 7 decks
7 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 6 decks
8 Kratos, God of War 6 decks
9 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 5 decks
10 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

488 brought · 261 players

Brought to game

488

Ever drawn

103

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 93% 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.

≥ -10.1pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=62) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=289).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=22) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -10.1pp to +3.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=75

39%

11%

15%

20%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 11

Cast same turn as drawn 62%

75 of 100 times cast 75%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.