Live Play Data

Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

· Legendary Creature — Salamander Serpent · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

231

Decks Running

116

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

27%

54%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 43% (4 / 37 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

231 brought · 114 players

Brought to game

231

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -18.7pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=30) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=147).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=20).

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 -3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -18.7pp to +10.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

60 instances

1.7%

Library

28.3%

Battlefield

28.3%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

Legendary Creature — Salamander Serpent

Whenever Xolatoyac enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. At the beginning of your end step, untap each permanent you control with a counter on it.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Campbell White

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.