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Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

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

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Times Brought

164

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

32 instances

37.5%

Battlefield

21.9%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

37.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

164 brought · 80 players

Brought to game

164

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=17) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=107).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -9.5pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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.