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Zacama, Primal Calamity

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

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Times Brought

838

Decks Running

377

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

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

Final zone distribution

174 instances

9.2%

Library

41.4%

Battlefield

15.5%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

843 brought · 348 players

Brought to game

843

Ever drawn

159

Reached battlefield

103

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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 37% of the time (n=78) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=475).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=43).

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 +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval +4.6pp to +15.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=111

16%

62%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 87% (5 / 111 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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.