Live Play Data

Palani's Hatcher

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

738

Decks Running

263

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

84%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=174

16%

63%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 26% (27 / 174 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

738 brought · 256 players

Brought to game

738

Ever drawn

208

Reached battlefield

174

Still on board at game end

109

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +13.1pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=163) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=434).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=28).

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 +21.0pp; 95% confidence interval +13.1pp to +29.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

225 instances

0.9%

Library

48.4%

Battlefield

28.0%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 105 decks
2 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 82 decks
3 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 48 decks
4 Blue, Loyal Raptor 10 decks
5 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 7 decks
6 Zacama, Primal Calamity 5 decks
7 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People 3 decks
8 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 3 decks
9 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 2 decks
10 Animar, Soul of Elements 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 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.