Live Play Data

Seaside Citadel

Land · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

27%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1614

Decks Running

760

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Seaside Citadel appears in 27% of tracked Commander decks on Playgroup Live, and 75% of drawn copies are played before the game ends, with a median first-cast turn of 4.

Seaside Citadel is the go-to three-color tapland for Bant (Green-White-Blue) and five-color Commander decks. It shows up in 27% of the 2769 tracked decks on Playgroup Live, making it one of the more consistently represented utility lands in the dataset.

When Seaside Citadel reaches a player's hand, 75% of those copies are played out before the game ends. Median first play lands on turn 4, consistent with a land that frequently appears in opening hands or very early draws. The card's low opportunity cost, a single colorless "mana value" of zero, means there is almost never a reason to hold it once drawn.

The data is well-spread: 640 distinct players have brought Seaside Citadel to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for just 3% of all instances. That breadth adds weight to the early signals we see in the play patterns.

At a glance

27% of tracked Commander decks include Seaside Citadel
75% of drawn copies are played before the game ends
T4 median first-play turn
90% battlefield stickiness once played
640 distinct players have brought Seaside Citadel to a tracked game
27% draw rate per game in which the card is in the deck

First-cast turn

n=329

27%

11%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 68%

The "good card" funnel

1617 brought · 640 players

Brought to game

1617

Ever drawn

440

Reached battlefield

329

Still on board at game end

295

75%

Of 1617 Seaside Citadels brought to games, 440 were drawn, 329 of those were played, and the large majority remained on the battlefield through the end of the game.

≥ -4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=303) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=996).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=102) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +5.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

478 instances

4.4%

Library

61.7%

Battlefield

13.2%

Graveyard

2.7%

Exile

Most Seaside Citadels never leave the library, a structural feature of 100-card singleton, not a statement about the card's value. Among observed instances, the large majority finish on the battlefield.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ms. Bumbleflower 115 decks
2 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 82 decks
3 Ashling, the Limitless 78 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 34 decks
5 Yuna, Grand Summoner 28 decks
6 The Ur-Dragon 25 decks
7 Arcades, the Strategist 23 decks
8 The First Sliver 15 decks
9 Tom Bombadil 15 decks
10 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 14 decks

Bant commanders dominate the top slots, with Ms. Bumbleflower and Tidus, Yuna's Guardian leading by deck count, but five-color generals like Ashling and Atraxa show meaningful representation too, confirming the land's cross-archetype utility.

Card text

Seaside Citadel

Land

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Frequently Asked

How often is Seaside Citadel drawn in a Commander game?

Across 1521 tracked multiplayer games where Seaside Citadel was in the deck, it was drawn 27% of the time. That is normal for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of the 440 instances that reached a player's hand, 75% were played before the game ended.

What turn does Seaside Citadel usually hit the battlefield?

Median first-play turn is 4, with the mode at turn 1, meaning the single most common scenario is playing it from an opening hand. The 25th-percentile is turn 1 and the 75th is turn 6, so the distribution is quite wide. Later plays typically reflect copies drawn mid-game rather than any strategic holding pattern.

Does playing Seaside Citadel correlate with winning?

In 303 tracked participations where Seaside Citadel reached the battlefield, the normalized win rate was 23%. In participations where it stayed in the library the entire game, the win rate was 22%. The gap is +0.8 percentage points. Both sample sizes are reasonably large, but the statistical confidence interval for this delta crosses zero in the current data, so treat it as a directional signal rather than a proven edge.

Which commanders most often run Seaside Citadel?

The top commanders by raw deck count are Bant and five-color generals. Ms. Bumbleflower and Tidus, Yuna's Guardian lead the multiplayer list, each appearing in over 40 decks in the tracked dataset. The spread across Bant, four-color, and five-color commanders confirms Seaside Citadel's role as a format-flexible mana fixer rather than a card tied to any single strategy.

Is Seaside Citadel legal in Commander?

Yes. Seaside Citadel is legal in Commander, Duel Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Oathbreaker, and PreDH. It is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Historic, or Brawl. Its Green-White-Blue color identity restricts it to decks whose commander shares all three colors, or to colorless-identity commanders.

How reliable is this data given the sample size?

The multiplayer dataset behind these numbers covers 1521 tracked games with 760 decks running Seaside Citadel, contributed by 640 distinct players. The single heaviest contributor accounts for just 3% of all instances, which is well below the threshold that would raise concentration concerns. That spread makes the draw and play-pattern stats directionally trustworthy, though Playgroup Live's dataset is still growing and should not be read as a definitive large-scale study.