Live Play Data

Verdant Catacombs

Land · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

9729

Decks Running

4452

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1826

24%

13%

11%

12%

11%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 20

Cast same turn as drawn 60%

The "good card" funnel

9732 brought · 2319 players

Brought to game

9732

Ever drawn

2481

Reached battlefield

1826

Still on board at game end

158

Once cast, 9% 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.

≥ +4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=1658) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=5946).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=586).

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 +6.9pp; 95% confidence interval +4.6pp to +9.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2803 instances

3.9%

Library

5.6%

Battlefield

65.0%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 130 decks
2 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 88 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 64 decks
4 The Wise Mothman 55 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 54 decks
6 Homer, the Hermit 52 decks
7 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 50 decks
8 Witherbloom, the Balancer 50 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 48 decks
10 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 47 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 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.