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Sandsteppe Citadel card art
Live Play Data

Sandsteppe Citadel

Land · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)
23%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
2575
Decks Running
1055
Median Cast Turn
3
Drawn → Played
76%
Format

First-cast turn

n=491
33%
T1
11%
T2
8%
T3
8%
T4
7%
T5
24%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median 3 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 18
Cast same turn as drawn 67%

The "good card" funnel

2578 brought · 1016 players
Brought to game
2578
Ever drawn
648
Reached battlefield
491
Still on board at game end
444

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=440) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1616).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=131).

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 +6.6pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +11.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

707 instances
3.0%
Library
62.8%
Battlefield
15.3%
Graveyard
3.8%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Sandsteppe Citadel card

Sandsteppe Citadel

Land
This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.
Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Diego Gisbert

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.