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Master of the Pearl Trident

· Creature — Merfolk · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

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Times Brought

244

Decks Running

112

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Card text

Master of the Pearl Trident

Creature — Merfolk

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

2 / 2

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

Final zone distribution

44 instances

6.8%

Library

40.9%

Battlefield

34.1%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 76 decks
2 Namor the Sub-Mariner 13 decks
3 Omo, Queen of Vesuva 6 decks
4 Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca 5 decks
5 Grandmother Goby 2 decks
6 Sygg, River Guide 2 decks
7 Emperor Mihail II 1 decks
8 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 1 decks
9 Kopala, Warden of Waves 1 decks
10 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

244 brought · 109 players

Brought to game

244

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -10.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=25) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=170).

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 -0.1pp; 95% confidence interval -10.3pp to +10.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=34

15%

12%

18%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 15% (5 / 34 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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.