Live Play Data

Misty Rainforest

Land · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3705

Decks Running

1870

Median Cast Turn

3.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

10% of tracked Commander decks run Misty Rainforest. When drawn, 72% of copies are activated before the game ends, with a median first-activation turn of 3.0.

Misty Rainforest sits in 10% of the 18376 Commander decks tracked on Playgroup Live, putting it among the most-played fetchlands in the dataset. Its color-identity neutrality means any deck touching green or blue can run it, and the top-commanders list confirms that breadth.

The fetch cycle's core promise is immediate mana fixing: activate, sacrifice, and put the right dual on the battlefield before your opponent can interact. 72% of drawn copies are activated before the game ends, and 63% of those activations happen on the very turn the card is drawn. The graveyard is the dominant final zone, as expected for a land that sacrifices itself on use. Almost no copies linger on the battlefield at game's end.

Across 2890 tracked multiplayer games, Misty Rainforest shows a directional positive win-rate lift of +8.2 percentage points for games where it resolves versus games where it stays buried in the library. With 679 cast observations the signal is early and should be read as indicative rather than conclusive, but the direction is consistent with the card's reputation as a mana-efficiency engine in Commander.

At a glance

10% of tracked Commander decks include Misty Rainforest
72% of drawn copies are activated before the game ends
T3.0 median first-activation turn
63% of activations happen the same turn the card is drawn
1063 distinct players have brought it to a tracked game, spreading the sample well
+8.2pp directional win-rate lift when activated vs. when it stays in the library

First-cast turn

n=720

29%

13%

11%

21%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 63%

The "good card" funnel

3706 brought · 1063 players

Brought to game

3706

Ever drawn

1002

Reached battlefield

720

Still on board at game end

72%

Of 3706 copies brought to tracked games, 1002 were drawn, and 720 of those were activated, with the overwhelming majority ending in the graveyard as the card sacrificed itself to fetch a land.

≥ +4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=679) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2284).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=268) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval +4.5pp to +11.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1134 instances

4.1%

Library

5.9%

Battlefield

64.0%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Graveyard dominates Misty Rainforest's final-zone chart, the expected signature of a land that sacrifices itself on use. The near-absence of library finishes reflects how efficiently players activate it when drawn.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 62 decks
2 Ms. Bumbleflower 31 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 30 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 28 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 25 decks
6 Flubs, the Fool 23 decks
7 Aragorn, the Uniter 21 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 20 decks
9 The Wise Mothman 20 decks
10 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 18 decks

Five-color commanders lead the list, but the spread across Simic, Temur, and four-color pairings confirms Misty Rainforest's role as a format-wide fixing piece rather than a card tied to any single archetype.

Card text

Misty Rainforest

Land

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Rare · Illustrated by Shelly Wan

Frequently Asked

How often is Misty Rainforest drawn in a Commander game?

Across 2890 tracked multiplayer games, Misty Rainforest was drawn 27% of the time when it was in a deck. That is consistent with what you'd expect from a singleton in a 100-card library. Of the 1002 instances that reached a player's hand, 72% were activated before the game concluded.

What turn does Misty Rainforest typically get activated?

The median first-activation turn is 3.0. The distribution skews early: the mode is turn 1, with strong clusters in turns 1 and 2 for players who kept it in their opening hand. Later activations in turns 5-7 reflect copies drawn mid-game. The P25 is turn 1 and the P75 is turn 5, so the interquartile range covers the critical early ramp window.

Does activating Misty Rainforest actually improve your win rate?

There is a directional +8.2 percentage-point lift between games where the card was activated (34%) and games where it stayed in the library (26%). Both sample sizes are meaningful, with 679 cast observations and 2284 library observations. Even so, the Playgroup Live dataset is early-stage, so treat this as a consistent directional signal rather than a statistically conclusive finding.

Where does Misty Rainforest end up at the end of the game?

The graveyard is by far the most common final zone, which is expected: the card sacrifices itself on activation. Only a small fraction of copies finish on the battlefield, representing games where the land was never activated before time ran out. A handful end up in exile, typically the result of graveyard-hate effects or incidental removal.

Is Misty Rainforest legal in Commander?

Yes. Misty Rainforest is legal and unrestricted in Commander, as well as in Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Duel Commander, and several other formats. It is banned in Historic and not legal in Pioneer or Standard. Its colorless color identity means it can slot into any Commander deck that benefits from fetching a Forest or Island.

Which commanders most commonly run Misty Rainforest on Playgroup Live?

The Ur-Dragon leads the tracked list by a clear margin, reflecting its five-color mana demands. A cluster of Simic (green-blue) and four- to five-color commanders follows closely: Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait, Kenrith the Returned King, Esika, God of the Tree, and Aragorn the Uniter all appear in the top ten. The spread across 1063 unique players, with no single player accounting for more than 27% of instances, suggests the data is reasonably representative of the broader meta rather than skewed by one heavy contributor.