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Intrepid Paleontologist

· Creature — Human Druid · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

168

Decks Running

In Decks

384

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Intrepid Paleontologist

Creature — Human Druid

: Add one mana of any color. {2}

: Exile target card from a graveyard. You may cast Dinosaur creature spells from among cards you own exiled with this creature. If you cast a spell this way, that creature enters with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Rare · Illustrated by Irina Nordsol

Final zone distribution

48 instances

33.3%

Battlefield

43.8%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

18.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 24 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 8 decks
3 Blue, Loyal Raptor 4 decks
4 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 3 decks
5 Duskana, the Rage Mother 2 decks
6 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 2 decks
7 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People 2 decks
8 Seton, Krosan Protector 2 decks
9 Teval, the Balanced Scale 2 decks
10 Ashling, the Limitless 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

168 brought · 54 players

Brought to game

168

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -27.8pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=31) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=112).

Observed gap -13.0pp; 95% confidence interval -27.8pp to +1.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=34

26%

18%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 35% (9 / 34 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

34 of 100 times cast 34%

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.