Live Play Data

Scampering Surveyor

· Artifact Creature — Gnome · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

273

Decks Running

149

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=58

17%

21%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 28% (10 / 58 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

273 brought · 136 players

Brought to game

273

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 31% 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.

≥ -10.1pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=54) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=149).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=24).

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 +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -10.1pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

99 instances

1.0%

Library

18.2%

Battlefield

56.6%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Scampering Surveyor

Artifact Creature — Gnome

When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card or Cave card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Xavier Ribeiro

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.