Live Play Data

Zacama, Primal Calamity

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

903

Decks Running

391

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=171

11%

73%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 89% (10 / 171 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

904 brought · 360 players

Brought to game

904

Ever drawn

225

Reached battlefield

159

Still on board at game end

106

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +14.8pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=143) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=569).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=63).

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 +23.0pp; 95% confidence interval +14.8pp to +31.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

242 instances

5.4%

Library

43.8%

Battlefield

21.9%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 184 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 98 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 37 decks
4 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 13 decks
5 Super-Skrull 12 decks
6 Omnath, Locus of All 10 decks
7 Maular, the Next Evolution 9 decks
8 Mayael the Anima 5 decks
9 Kenrith, the Returned King 4 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks

Card text

Zacama, Primal Calamity

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

Reach, vigilance, trample When Zacama enters, if you cast it, untap all lands you control. {2}

: Zacama deals 3 damage to target creature. {2}

: Destroy target artifact or enchantment. {2}

: You gain 3 life.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Jaime Jones

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.