Live Play Data

Lotus Cobra

· Creature — Snake · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3617

Decks Running

1624

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=723

24%

13%

10%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 16

On curve 32% (177 / 723 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

3618 brought · 1284 players

Brought to game

3618

Ever drawn

930

Reached battlefield

723

Still on board at game end

402

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=658) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2242).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=192).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval +4.0pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1062 instances

3.0%

Library

37.9%

Battlefield

36.3%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Lotus Cobra

Creature — Snake

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

2 / 1

Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Rare · Illustrated by Sam Rowan

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.