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Palani's Hatcher

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

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Times Brought

374

Decks Running

174

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

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.

5 / 3

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

Final zone distribution

95 instances

1.1%

Library

45.3%

Battlefield

24.2%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 64 decks
2 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 61 decks
3 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 34 decks
4 Blue, Loyal Raptor 6 decks
5 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 3 decks
6 Zacama, Primal Calamity 3 decks
7 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People 2 decks
8 Morophon, the Boundless 2 decks
9 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 1 decks
10 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

378 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

378

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=55) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=212).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=19).

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 +12.7pp; 95% confidence interval +5.9pp to +19.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=67

19%

21%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 49% (14 / 67 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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.