Live Play Data

Hidden Cataract

Land — Cave · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

216

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

35%

11%

14%

19%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 63%

The "good card" funnel

216 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

216

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 84% 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.

≥ -8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=29) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=139).

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 +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval -8.1pp to +23.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

58 instances

5.2%

Library

53.4%

Battlefield

13.8%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Omo, Queen of Vesuva 31 decks
2 Kellan, the Kid 5 decks
3 Whtz, the Bibliophile 4 decks
4 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 3 decks
5 Lara Croft, Tomb Raider 3 decks
6 Blue, Loyal Raptor 2 decks
7 Omnath, Locus of All 2 decks
8 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 2 decks
9 Volo, Itinerant Scholar 2 decks
10 Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood 2 decks

Card text

Hidden Cataract

Land — Cave

This land enters tapped. {T}

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Common · Illustrated by Josu Solano

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.