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Badlands

Land — Swamp Mountain · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

405

Decks Running

202

In Decks

1849

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

149 instances

4.0%

Library

73.8%

Battlefield

9.4%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 19 decks
2 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 10 decks
3 Kenrith, the Returned King 8 decks
4 Mr. House, President and CEO 8 decks
5 Loki, the Deceiver 5 decks
6 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 5 decks
7 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 4 decks
8 Kaalia of the Vast 4 decks
9 Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor 4 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

405 brought · 147 players

Brought to game

405

Ever drawn

137

Reached battlefield

121

Still on board at game end

110

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=120) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=245).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=16) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +12.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=121

26%

13%

11%

13%

11%

21%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 68%

353 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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.