Live Play Data

Hit the Mother Lode

· Sorcery · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1292

Decks Running

614

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=189

14%

62%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 63% (40 / 189 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

1294 brought · 559 players

Brought to game

1294

Ever drawn

315

Reached battlefield

189

Still on board at game end

≥ +8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=176) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=821).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=111).

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 +15.5pp; 95% confidence interval +8.1pp to +22.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

347 instances

3.5%

Library

6.3%

Battlefield

50.7%

Graveyard

15.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 166 decks
2 Lorehold, the Historian 59 decks
3 Smaug the Magnificent 35 decks
4 Magar of the Magic Strings 27 decks
5 Ashaya's Enduring Bond 18 decks
6 The Infamous Cruelclaw 18 decks
7 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 17 decks
8 Itazura, Lingering Wick 11 decks
9 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 10 decks
10 The Scarlet Witch 9 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.