Live Play Data

Topography Tracker

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

300

Decks Running

153

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

20%

10%

28%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 28% (8 / 40 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

300 brought · 144 players

Brought to game

300

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=36) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=198).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=21).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -11.3pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

74 instances

1.4%

Library

40.5%

Battlefield

29.7%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 148 decks
2 Nicanzil, Current Conductor 2 decks
3 Borborygmos and Fblthp 1 decks
4 Captain Kathryn Janeway 1 decks
5 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.