Live Play Data

Thundering Spineback

· Creature — Dinosaur · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

208

Decks Running

109

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=17

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 105 players

Brought to game

208

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=16) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=142).

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 +17.1pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +41.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

37 instances

10.8%

Library

18.9%

Battlefield

24.3%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 75 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 16 decks
3 Sauron, Dino Devotee 4 decks
4 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 3 decks
5 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 2 decks
6 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 2 decks
7 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 2 decks
8 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron 1 decks
9 Halana, Kessig Ranger 1 decks
10 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty 1 decks

Card text

Thundering Spineback

Creature — Dinosaur

Other Dinosaurs you control get +1/+1. {5}

: Create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

5 / 5

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Brian Valeza

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.