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Thunderherd Migration

· Sorcery · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

213

Decks Running

109

In Decks

685

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Thunderherd Migration

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand or pay {1}

. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lars Grant-West

Final zone distribution

55 instances

9.1%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

70.9%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 73 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 14 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 7 decks
4 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 4 decks
5 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 3 decks
6 Blue, Loyal Raptor 2 decks
7 Zacama, Primal Calamity 2 decks
8 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 1 decks
9 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 1 decks
10 Halana, Kessig Ranger 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

213 brought · 105 players

Brought to game

213

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.7pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=32) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=146).

Observed gap +1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -14.7pp to +17.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

11%

26%

13%

11%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 37% (10 / 38 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

38 of 100 times cast 38%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.