Live Play Data

Palani's Hatcher

· Creature — Dinosaur · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

422

Decks Running

171

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

84%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=105

16%

61%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 29% (17 / 105 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

422 brought · 163 players

Brought to game

422

Ever drawn

125

Reached battlefield

105

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ +11.4pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=101) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=241).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=16).

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 +21.7pp; 95% confidence interval +11.4pp to +32.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

138 instances

46.4%

Battlefield

27.5%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

18.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 69 decks
2 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 48 decks
3 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 37 decks
4 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 6 decks
5 Blue, Loyal Raptor 5 decks
6 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People 2 decks
7 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 2 decks
8 Zacama, Primal Calamity 2 decks
9 Grimlock, Dinobot Leader // Grimlock, Ferocious King 1 decks
10 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 1 decks

Card text

Palani's Hatcher

Creature — Dinosaur

Other Dinosaurs you control have haste. When this creature enters, create two 0/1 green Dinosaur Egg creature tokens. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control one or more Eggs, sacrifice an Egg, then create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Rare · Illustrated by Aaron Miller

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.