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Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core

Legendary Artifact // Legendary Land · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

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Times Brought

277

Decks Running

142

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

Matzalantli, the Great Door

Legendary Artifact

: Draw a card, then discard a card. {4}

: 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 — {T}

: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Rare · Illustrated by Piotr Dura

Final zone distribution

74 instances

2.7%

Library

60.8%

Battlefield

28.4%

Graveyard

2.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 5 decks
2 The Capitoline Triad 5 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 4 decks
4 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 4 decks
5 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 4 decks
6 Golbez, Crystal Collector 4 decks
7 The Mycotyrant 4 decks
8 Winter, Cynical Opportunist 4 decks
9 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 3 decks
10 Imotekh the Stormlord 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

277 brought · 129 players

Brought to game

277

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=39) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=146).

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 +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=51

10%

18%

14%

12%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 27% (9 / 51 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

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.