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The Motherlode, Excavator

· Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot · Fallout (PIP)

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Times Brought

118

Decks Running

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

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

Final zone distribution

25 instances

40.0%

Battlefield

28.0%

Graveyard

12.0%

Exile

20.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

118 brought · 69 players

Brought to game

118

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.