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Promising Vein LCI 0279 · common

Promising Vein · Land — Cave · {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. · United under the banner of the Brazen Coalition, pirates put aside their feuds to plunder the underground bounty.

Promising Vein · Land — Cave · {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. · United under the banner of the Brazen Coalition, pirates put aside their feuds to plunder the underground bounty.

Price
from $0.251 printing
Win rate
53.6% GIH 56,248 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 30,132 wins in 56,248 card-in-hand instances.

53,447 distinct games · 19,255 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023.

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

Draft data

53.6%when drawn (GIH)

−1.8 pp vs 55.3% average · 56,248 instances

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

Land · compared with other lands below · last seen around pick 6.0 on average (237,122 packs).

26 of 39 land cards.

Taken at pick8.632,747 picks
Makes the deck64.9%32,747 picks with known usage
When played53.0%110,610.8 matchesBenched 56.7%
54,333.2 matches
When drawn53.6%56,248 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 53.0% · 23,738 instances
● Drawn later 54.0% · 32,510 instances

In hand 53.6% · 56,248 instances
Unseen in deck 52.4% · 73,252 instances
+1.2 percentage points when drawn

Compared with land cards

Win rate when drawn53.6%56,248 instances26 of 39
Opening hand53.0%23,738 instances26 of 39
Drawn later54.0%32,510 instances22 of 39
In the deck52.9%130,197 instances27 of 39
Without seeing it52.4%73,252 instances25 of 39
Improvement when drawn+1.2 pp56,248 instances / 73,252 instances20 of 39
When benched56.7%54,333.2 matches3 of 39
Makes the deck64.9%32,747 picks with known usage18 of 39
Pick (last seen)6.0237,122 packs27 of 39
Taken at8.632,747 picks26 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

Fungal Festering BG55.6%3,004 instancesEchoes of the Dead UB55.1%3,381 instancesOltec Ingenuity WU54.5%2,558 instancesDinosaurs of the Sun Empire RG53.9%2,648 instancesDusk Legion Pilgrimage WB53.5%2,067 instancesGoing Down! BR52.8%1,960 instancesMalamet Tactics GW51.8%1,020 instancesPirates' Plunder UR51.0%1,726 instancesThousand-Moon Legion RW50.6%1,398 instancesRiver Herald Expedition UG50.2%990 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (53.6% · 56,248 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 0279 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
Nonfoildraft · set$0.25
FoilCollector Booster · draft · set$0.29

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
Julian Kok Joon Wen, LCI 279 · 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 ↗