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Part of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
, : Transform Matzalantli. Activate only if there are four or more permanent types among cards in your graveyard. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are permanent types.)
Live Play Data
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
Legendary Artifact // Legendary Land
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
589
Decks Running
268
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
70%
Format
First-cast turn
n=109
0%
T1
7%
T2
17%
T3
14%
T4
17%
T5
38%
T6-9
7%
T10+
Median
5
P25
4
· P75
7
· max
14
On curve
25%
(19 / 109 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
37%
The "good card" funnel
592 brought · 240 playersBrought to game
592
Ever drawn
156
Reached battlefield
109
Still on board at game end
88
Once cast, 81% 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 34% of the time (n=104) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=344).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=46).
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 +13.1pp; 95% confidence interval +3.8pp to +22.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
193 instances4.1%
Library
45.6%
Battlefield
28.0%
Graveyard
5.2%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
14 decks
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2
Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus
13 decks
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3
Winter, Cynical Opportunist
8 decks
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4
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
7 decks
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5
The Ancient One
7 decks
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6
Coram, the Undertaker
6 decks
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7
Golbez, Crystal Collector
6 decks
- 8 Molecule Man 6 decks
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9
Seluma, Light of Aysen
6 decks
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10
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
5 decks
Card text
Matzalantli, the Great Door
Legendary Artifact
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
, : Transform Matzalantli. Activate only if there are four or more permanent types among cards in your graveyard. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are permanent types.)The Core
Legendary Land
(Transforms from Matzalantli.)
Fathomless descent — : Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Piotr Dura
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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.