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Part of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
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Creature — Merfolk Scout
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
Live Play Data
Topography Tracker
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Creature — Merfolk Scout
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
225
Decks Running
113
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
59%
Format
First-cast turn
n=29
3%
T1
7%
T2
21%
T3
10%
T4
28%
T5
28%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median
5
P25
3
· P75
6
· max
19
On curve
31%
(6 / 29 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
36%
The "good card" funnel
225 brought · 109 playersBrought to game
225
Ever drawn
49
Reached battlefield
29
Still on board at game end
21
Once cast, 72% 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.
≥ -11.8pp
Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=26) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=148).
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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval -11.8pp to +24.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
53 instances1.9%
Library
39.6%
Battlefield
26.4%
Graveyard
7.5%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hakbal of the Surging Soul
110 decks
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2
Borborygmos and Fblthp
1 decks
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3
Nicanzil, Current Conductor
1 decks
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4
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 "
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, 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.
, , 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.2 / 2
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
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Rare
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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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.