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Topiary Stomper

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

485

Decks Running

246

In Decks

1735

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Topiary Stomper

Creature — Plant Dinosaur

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. This creature can't attack or block unless you control seven or more lands.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Robin Olausson

Final zone distribution

143 instances

3.5%

Library

39.2%

Battlefield

31.5%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 92 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 41 decks
3 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 17 decks
4 Eshki, Temur's Roar 7 decks
5 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 6 decks
6 Yarok, the Desecrated 6 decks
7 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 4 decks
8 Blue, Loyal Raptor 3 decks
9 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 3 decks
10 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

485 brought · 223 players

Brought to game

485

Ever drawn

133

Reached battlefield

100

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -6.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=92) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=310).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 41% (n=31) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -6.7pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=100

20%

12%

16%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 23% (20 / 100 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

478 of 300 tracked games 99%

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.