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Land Tax

· Enchantment · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

820

Decks Running

418

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Land Tax

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chuck Lukacs

Final zone distribution

179 instances

1.1%

Library

67.6%

Battlefield

12.3%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 37 decks
2 Killian, Decisive Mentor 34 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 19 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 9 decks
5 Darien, King of Kjeldor 8 decks
6 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 7 decks
7 Heliod, Sun-Crowned 7 decks
8 Edgar Markov 6 decks
9 Eriette of the Charmed Apple 6 decks
10 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

820 brought · 363 players

Brought to game

820

Ever drawn

171

Reached battlefield

138

Still on board at game end

121

Once cast, 88% 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.

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=105) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=493).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=29) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=138

37%

10%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 37% (51 / 138 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 71%

1113 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.