Live Play Data

Life from the Loam

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

973

Decks Running

490

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=99

10%

14%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 6% (5 / 99 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

973 brought · 441 players

Brought to game

973

Ever drawn

212

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=92) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=563).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=99).

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +18.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

316 instances

2.8%

Library

1.3%

Battlefield

54.7%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Life from the Loam

Sorcery

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Carlos Palma Cruchaga

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.