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Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Legendary Land · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

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Times Brought

5664

Decks Running

2745

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

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Legendary Land

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Rare · Illustrated by Sarah Finnigan

Final zone distribution

1313 instances

2.4%

Library

74.5%

Battlefield

8.7%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Toph, the First Metalbender 66 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 62 decks
3 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 45 decks
4 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 43 decks
5 Thranduil, the Elvenking 42 decks
6 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 36 decks
7 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 34 decks
8 Omo, Queen of Vesuva 30 decks
9 Teval, the Balanced Scale 28 decks
10 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 27 decks

The "good card" funnel

5667 brought · 1698 players

Brought to game

5667

Ever drawn

1218

Reached battlefield

1020

Still on board at game end

978

Once cast, 96% 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.

≥ +0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=795) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=3287).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=142).

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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +3.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=1020

22%

15%

14%

12%

10%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 56%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.