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Primordial Gnawer LCI 0114 · common

Primordial Gnawer · {4}{B} · Creature — Insect Horror · When this creature dies, discover 3. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 3 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.) · Power / toughness: 5/2 · Cave crawlers devour anything from plant matter to solid rock, but they prefer fresh meat.

Primordial Gnawer · {4}{B} · Creature — Insect Horror · When this creature dies, discover 3. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 3 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.) · Power / toughness: 5/2 · Cave crawlers devour anything from plant matter to solid rock, but they prefer fresh meat.

Price
from $0.191 printing
Win rate
53.8% GIH 19,086 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 10,264 wins in 19,086 card-in-hand instances.

17,760 distinct games · 6,543 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023.

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

Draft data

53.8%when drawn (GIH)

−1.6 pp vs 55.3% average · 19,086 instances

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

#161 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 7.8 on average (286,534 packs).

26 of 42 black cards · 11 of 19 black common cards.

Taken at pick11.331,208 picks
Makes the deck24.1%31,208 picks with known usage
When played51.8%38,701.9 matchesBenched 54.3%
117,735.1 matches
When drawn53.8%19,086 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 52.3% · 7,221 instances
● Drawn later 54.7% · 11,865 instances

In hand 53.8% · 19,086 instances
Unseen in deck 50.5% · 26,452 instances
+3.3 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn53.8%19,086 instances26 of 42
Opening hand52.3%7,221 instances24 of 42
Drawn later54.7%11,865 instances27 of 42
In the deck51.9%45,766 instances28 of 42
Without seeing it50.5%26,452 instances28 of 42
Improvement when drawn+3.3 pp19,086 instances / 26,452 instances20 of 42
When benched54.3%117,735.1 matches35 of 42
Makes the deck24.1%31,208 picks with known usage39 of 42
Pick (last seen)7.8286,534 packs40 of 42
Taken at11.331,208 picks40 of 42

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

Fungal Festering BG54.7%3,250 instancesEchoes of the Dead UB54.5%4,252 instancesDusk Legion Pilgrimage WB54.1%3,275 instancesGoing Down! BR52.3%2,803 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (53.8% · 19,086 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Usually played with

Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.

Dead Weight21,022 games with both in the deckJoin the Dead20,618 games with both in the deckDeathcap Marionette20,000 games with both in the deck
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 36% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

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 0114 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
Nonfoildraft · set$0.19
FoilCollector Booster · draft · set$0.24

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 11 packs (9.36%) · 97.1% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 188 packs (0.53%) · 14.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 23 packs (4.31%) · 73.4% 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 BoosterCommons100% per positionCommons
Draft BoosterCommon or traditional foil67%Common
Draft BoosterCommon or traditional foil33%Traditional foil of any rarity
Set BoosterCommons100% per positionCommons
Set BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Set BoosterWildcards100% per positionWildcards
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
Maxime Minard, LCI 114 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
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Sources
Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗