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Part of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
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Creature — Human Druid
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
: Add one mana of any color.
: 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.)
Live Play Data
Intrepid Paleontologist
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Creature — Human Druid
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
296
Decks Running
99
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
77%
Format
First-cast turn
n=54
6%
T1
22%
T2
7%
T3
9%
T4
13%
T5
37%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
2
· P75
7
· max
12
On curve
28%
(12 / 54 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
40%
The "good card" funnel
296 brought · 93 playersBrought to game
296
Ever drawn
70
Reached battlefield
54
Still on board at game end
32
Once cast, 59% 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.
≥ -17.7pp
Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=47) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=201).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=15).
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 -5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -17.7pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
76 instances1.3%
Library
42.1%
Battlefield
31.6%
Graveyard
5.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
45 decks
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2
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
15 decks
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3
Blue, Loyal Raptor
6 decks
-
4
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy
4 decks
-
5
Ghalta, Primal Hunger
3 decks
-
6
Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer
3 decks
-
7
Sauron, Dino Devotee
3 decks
-
8
Duskana, the Rage Mother
2 decks
-
9
Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People
2 decks
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10
Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss
2 decks
Card text
Intrepid Paleontologist
Creature — Human Druid
: Add one mana of any color.
: 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.)2 / 2
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Irina Nordsol
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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.