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Spelunking

{2} {G} · Enchantment · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
2%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
401
Decks Running
213
In Decks
1654
Decklist Inclusion
2%
Format

Final zone distribution

117 instances
2.6%
Library
53.8%
Battlefield
23.1%
Graveyard
1.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

401 brought · 188 players
Brought to game
401
Ever drawn
101
Reached battlefield
77
Still on board at game end
63

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ +1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=73) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=264).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=23) — 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 +12.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.2pp to +23.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=77
1%
T1
12%
T2
17%
T3
10%
T4
22%
T5
32%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 10
On curve 30% (13 / 77 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%
77 of 100 times cast 77%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.