Live Play Data

Desert

Land — Desert · Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

475

Decks Running

222

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=87

15%

10%

16%

15%

16%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 10

Cast same turn as drawn 52%

The "good card" funnel

475 brought · 207 players

Brought to game

475

Ever drawn

113

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=72) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=301).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=24).

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 +6.4pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +17.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

120 instances

2.5%

Library

63.3%

Battlefield

15.0%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 37 decks
2 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 21 decks
3 Hazezon, Shaper of Sand 19 decks
4 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 14 decks
5 Horobi, Death's Wail 13 decks
6 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 13 decks
7 Gisa, the Hellraiser 10 decks
8 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 8 decks
9 Yuma, Proud Protector 7 decks
10 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 5 decks

Card text

Desert

Land — Desert

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: This land deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Activate only during the end of combat step.

Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Glen Angus

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.