Live Play Data

The Motherlode, Excavator

· Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot · Fallout (PIP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

108

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

108 brought · 52 players

Brought to game

108

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.2pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=17) , vs 11% when it never left the library (n=65).

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 +8.4pp; 95% confidence interval -10.2pp to +26.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

32 instances

3.1%

Library

34.4%

Battlefield

15.6%

Graveyard

15.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dr. Madison Li 28 decks
2 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 11 decks
3 Liberty Prime, Recharged 7 decks
4 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 5 decks
5 Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa 1 decks
6 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 1 decks
7 Red Death, Shipwrecker 1 decks

Card text

The Motherlode, Excavator

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot

When The Motherlode enters, choose target opponent. You get an amount of {E}

(energy counters) equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls. Whenever The Motherlode attacks, you may pay {E}

. When you do, destroy target nonbasic land defending player controls, and creatures that player controls without flying can't block this turn.

5 / 5

Fallout (PIP) · Rare · Illustrated by Josu Solano

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.