Live Play Data

The Skullspore Nexus

· Legendary Artifact · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

365

Decks Running

175

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=41

10%

32%

44%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 76% (5 / 41 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

365 brought · 160 players

Brought to game

365

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=37) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=256).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=30).

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 -5.6pp to +22.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

87 instances

4.6%

Library

35.6%

Battlefield

25.3%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 25 decks
2 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 18 decks
3 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 11 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 6 decks
5 Dina, Essence Brewer 6 decks
6 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 5 decks
7 Xenagos, God of Revels 5 decks
8 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 4 decks
9 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 4 decks
10 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 4 decks

Card text

The Skullspore Nexus

Legendary Artifact

This spell costs {X}

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. {2}

: Double target creature's power until end of turn.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Mythic · 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.