Live Play Data

Verdant Catacombs

Land · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

6806

Decks Running

3264

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1274

23%

13%

11%

12%

11%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 59%

The "good card" funnel

6808 brought · 1742 players

Brought to game

6808

Ever drawn

1706

Reached battlefield

1274

Still on board at game end

107

Once cast, 8% 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.

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=1158) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=4160).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=397).

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 +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +7.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1949 instances

3.8%

Library

5.5%

Battlefield

66.3%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 107 decks
2 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 57 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 49 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 44 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 39 decks
6 The Wise Mothman 38 decks
7 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 37 decks
8 Witherbloom, the Balancer 36 decks
9 Homer, the Hermit 35 decks
10 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 34 decks

Card text

Verdant Catacombs

Land

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Rare · Illustrated by Vance Kovacs

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.