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Temple Altisaur

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

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Times Brought

637

Decks Running

309

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Temple Altisaur

Creature — Dinosaur

If a source would deal damage to another Dinosaur you control, prevent all but 1 of that damage.

3 / 4

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

Final zone distribution

162 instances

6.8%

Library

47.5%

Battlefield

14.2%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 171 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 94 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 23 decks
4 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 8 decks
5 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People 3 decks
6 Morophon, the Boundless 3 decks
7 Zacama, Primal Calamity 3 decks
8 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 1 decks
9 Ghalta and Mavren 1 decks
10 Ghalta the Immovable 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

638 brought · 280 players

Brought to game

638

Ever drawn

152

Reached battlefield

109

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=82) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=340).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=29).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +9.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=109

16%

17%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 40% (19 / 109 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

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.