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Hit the Mother Lode

· Sorcery · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

207

Decks Running

121

In Decks

788

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

50 instances

4.0%

Library

6.0%

Battlefield

48.0%

Graveyard

16.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lorehold, the Historian 19 decks
2 Smaug the Magnificent 7 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 6 decks
4 Magar of the Magic Strings 6 decks
5 The Infamous Cruelclaw 6 decks
6 The Scarlet Witch 4 decks
7 Vihaan, Goldwaker 4 decks
8 Codie, Vociferous Codex 3 decks
9 Jaws, Relentless Predator 3 decks
10 Maelstrom Wanderer 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

209 brought · 109 players

Brought to game

209

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=27) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=141).

Observed gap +8.6pp; 95% confidence interval -8.5pp to +25.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

10%

76%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 66% (7 / 29 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

29 of 100 times cast 28%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.