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Part of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
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Legendary Artifact
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Live Play Data
The Skullspore Nexus
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Legendary Artifact
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1409
Decks Running
605
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
59%
Format
First-cast turn
n=196
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
8%
T4
17%
T5
59%
T6-9
16%
T10+
Median
7.0
P25
6
· P75
9
· max
16
On curve
73%
(24 / 196 cast on T8)
Cast same turn as drawn
35%
The "good card" funnel
1409 brought · 531 playersBrought to game
1409
Ever drawn
332
Reached battlefield
196
Still on board at game end
145
Once cast, 74% 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.
≥ +8.1pp
Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=193) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=958).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=129).
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 +15.0pp; 95% confidence interval +8.1pp to +21.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
380 instances4.2%
Library
38.2%
Battlefield
22.6%
Graveyard
6.6%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
92 decks
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2
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
68 decks
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3
Ghalta, Primal Hunger
45 decks
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4
The Muckslinger Gang
21 decks
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5
Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector
19 decks
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6
Dina, Essence Brewer
18 decks
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7
Tom, Bert, and William
14 decks
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8
Maular, the Next Evolution
13 decks
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9
Atla Palani, Nest Tender
12 decks
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10
The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
12 decks
Card text
The Skullspore Nexus
Legendary Artifact
This spell costs 
less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a green Fungus Dinosaur creature token with base power and toughness each equal to the total power of those creatures.
, 
: Double target creature's power until end of turn.
less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a green Fungus Dinosaur creature token with base power and toughness each equal to the total power of those creatures.
, : Double target creature's power until end of turn.
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Daarken
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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.