Live Play Data

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· Creature — Merfolk Wizard · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

160

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

160 brought · 81 players

Brought to game

160

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -20.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=17) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=104).

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 -20.1pp to +25.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

40 instances

5.0%

Library

27.5%

Battlefield

35.0%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 72 decks
2 Azami, Lady of Scrolls 2 decks
3 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 2 decks
4 Princess Yue 2 decks
5 Svyelun of Sea and Sky 2 decks
6 Aang and Katara 1 decks
7 Captain America, Living Legend 1 decks
8 Miles "Tails" Prower 1 decks
9 Nicanzil, Current Conductor 1 decks
10 Phenax, God of Deception 1 decks

Card text

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Creature — Merfolk Wizard

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may pay {1}

. If you do, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Warren Mahy

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.