Live Play Data

Hit the Mother Lode

· Sorcery · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

923

Decks Running

451

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=153

14%

64%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 64% (35 / 153 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

925 brought · 409 players

Brought to game

925

Ever drawn

227

Reached battlefield

153

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=140) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=577).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=65).

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 +13.3pp; 95% confidence interval +5.1pp to +21.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

252 instances

3.2%

Library

8.3%

Battlefield

51.2%

Graveyard

14.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 89 decks
2 Lorehold, the Historian 48 decks
3 Smaug the Magnificent 30 decks
4 Magar of the Magic Strings 22 decks
5 The Infamous Cruelclaw 15 decks
6 Ashaya's Enduring Bond 14 decks
7 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 13 decks
8 Itazura, Lingering Wick 10 decks
9 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 9 decks
10 Jaws, Relentless Predator 8 decks

Card text

Hit the Mother Lode

Sorcery

Discover 10. If the discovered card's mana value is less than 10, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the difference. (To discover 10, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 10 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) · Rare · Illustrated by Diego Gisbert

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.