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Hidden Cataract LCI 0273 · common

Hidden Cataract · Land — Cave · This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Hidden Cataract · Land — Cave · This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Price
from $0.201 printing
Win rate
55.2% GIH 89,083 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 49,146 wins in 89,083 card-in-hand instances.

83,515 distinct games · 28,495 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023.

17Lands file dated Dec 27, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

55.2%when drawn (GIH)

−0.2 pp vs 55.3% average · 89,083 instances

Premier Draft · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · average from 823,614 games

Land · compared with other lands below · last seen around pick 6.3 on average (240,415 packs).

14 of 39 land cards.

Taken at pick8.841,850 picks
Makes the deck77.2%41,850 picks with known usage
When played55.6%173,585 matchesBenched 56.3%
40,460 matches
When drawn55.2%89,083 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 56.1% · 36,401 instances
● Drawn later 54.5% · 52,682 instances

In hand 55.2% · 89,083 instances
Unseen in deck 55.8% · 115,432 instances
−0.6 percentage points when drawn

Compared with land cards

Win rate when drawn55.2%89,083 instances14 of 39
Opening hand56.1%36,401 instances14 of 39
Drawn later54.5%52,682 instances19 of 39
In the deck55.5%205,791 instances13 of 39
Without seeing it55.8%115,432 instances5 of 39
Improvement when drawn−0.6 pp89,083 instances / 115,432 instances30 of 39
When benched56.3%40,460 matches5 of 39
Makes the deck77.2%41,850 picks with known usage10 of 39
Pick (last seen)6.3240,415 packs31 of 39
Taken at8.841,850 picks30 of 39

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Oltec Ingenuity WU57.3%23,899 instancesPirates' Plunder UR56.1%17,757 instancesEchoes of the Dead UB55.1%13,426 instancesRiver Herald Expedition UG54.4%5,378 instancesThousand-Moon Legion RW65.4%52 instances · under 100Fungal Festering BG48.8%41 instances · under 100Dusk Legion Pilgrimage WB46.0%50 instances · under 100Malamet Tactics GW39.3%28 instances · under 100Dinosaurs of the Sun Empire RG30.4%23 instances · under 100Going Down! BR25.0%16 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (55.2% · 89,083 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Card partners need a verified analysis of this format’s public game file.

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

LCI 0273 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
Nonfoildraft · set$0.20
FoilCollector Booster · draft · set$0.22

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 27 packs (3.70%) · 36.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 565 packs (0.18%) · 6.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 10 packs (10.00%) · 97.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 40 packs (2.52%) · 53.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 13 packs (8.00%) · 91.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Draft BoosterCommon or traditional foil33%Traditional foil of any rarity
Draft BoosterLand70%Nonbasic Cave
Set BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Set BoosterLandRegular cards in this group; no separate share publishedLand · nonfoil
Set BoosterLandRegular cards in this group; no separate share publishedLand · foil
Collector BoosterTraditional foil commons100% per positionTraditional foil commons

Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Josu Solano, LCI 273 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗