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· Artifact · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

277

Decks Running

164

In Decks

1103

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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Artifact

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {3}

: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Seaman

Final zone distribution

67 instances

1.5%

Library

61.2%

Battlefield

22.4%

Graveyard

3.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Swarmlord 30 decks
2 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 16 decks
3 Sliver Gravemother 9 decks
4 Krenko, Mob Boss 6 decks
5 Magus Lucea Kane 6 decks
6 The First Sliver 6 decks
7 Marrow-Gnawer 5 decks
8 Giada, Font of Hope 4 decks
9 Sliver Overlord 4 decks
10 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

277 brought · 152 players

Brought to game

277

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=46) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=179).

Observed gap +11.5pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +23.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=50

20%

16%

36%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 26% (10 / 50 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

50 of 100 times cast 50%

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.