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Badlands

Land — Swamp Mountain · Vintage Masters (VMA)

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Times Brought

490

Decks Running

185

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.

Final zone distribution

166 instances

2.4%

Library

79.5%

Battlefield

6.6%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 19 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 10 decks
3 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 9 decks
4 Edgar Markov 8 decks
5 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 6 decks
6 Kaalia of the Vast 5 decks
7 Mr. House, President and CEO 5 decks
8 The First Sliver 5 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 4 decks
10 Kraum, Ludevic's Opus 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

490 brought · 162 players

Brought to game

490

Ever drawn

158

Reached battlefield

141

Still on board at game end

132

Once cast, 94% 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.

≥ -6.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=128) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=262).

Observed gap -1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.7pp to +3.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=141

35%

18%

13%

12%

16%

T6-9

T10+

Median 2 P25 1 · P75 4 · max 11

Cast same turn as drawn 74%

456 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.