Live Play Data

Cabal Stronghold

Land · Dominaria (DOM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1593

Decks Running

739

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=274

11%

12%

11%

13%

14%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

1595 brought · 620 players

Brought to game

1595

Ever drawn

367

Reached battlefield

274

Still on board at game end

255

Once cast, 93% 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.

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=249) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1009).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=82).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

441 instances

1.6%

Library

57.8%

Battlefield

18.1%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 70 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 67 decks
3 Marrow-Gnawer 42 decks
4 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 35 decks
5 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 22 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 21 decks
7 Rat King, Verminister 21 decks
8 Ardyn, the Usurper 16 decks
9 Maha, Its Feathers Night 11 decks
10 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 10 decks

Card text

Cabal Stronghold

Land

: Add

: Add

for each basic Swamp you control.

Dominaria (DOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Dimitar Marinski

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. 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. Playgroup has recorded 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.