Live Play Data

Topography Tracker

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

139

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21

10%

19%

10%

33%

19%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 19

On curve 33% (4 / 21 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

139 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

139

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ -23.9pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=18) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=90).

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 -4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -23.9pp to +14.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

37 instances

2.7%

Library

40.5%

Battlefield

32.4%

Graveyard

24.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 75 decks
2 Borborygmos and Fblthp 1 decks
3 Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence 1 decks

Card text

Topography Tracker

Creature — Merfolk Scout

When this creature enters, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with " {1}

, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.") If a creature you control would explore, instead it explores, then it explores again.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lindsey Look

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.