Live Play Data

Merfolk Skydiver

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

315

Decks Running

147

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

19%

15%

11%

34%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 23% (10 / 53 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

315 brought · 141 players

Brought to game

315

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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 28% of the time (n=45) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=213).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +22.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

72 instances

8.3%

Library

29.2%

Battlefield

41.7%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Merfolk Skydiver

Creature — Merfolk Mutant

Flying When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. {3}

: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Sara Winters

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.