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Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

{2} {R} {G} {W} · Legendary Creature — Dinosaur · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
Times Brought
213
Decks Running
98
In Decks
Decklist Inclusion
Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored card

Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

{2} {R} {G} {W}
Legendary Creature — Dinosaur
Whenever Pantlaza or another Dinosaur you control enters, you may discover X, where X is that creature's toughness. Do this only once each turn. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Sam Burley

Final zone distribution

52 instances
1.9%
Library
53.8%
Battlefield
21.2%
Graveyard
3.8%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

213 brought · 95 players
Brought to game
213
Ever drawn
51
Reached battlefield
39
Still on board at game end
28

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=33) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=121).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +12.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=308
1%
T1
3%
T2
19%
T3
30%
T4
26%
T5
19%
T6-9
2%
T10+
Median 4.0 P25 4 · P75 5 · max 12
On curve 79% (79 / 308 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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.