Live Play Data

Desert of the Fervent

Land — Desert · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

336

Decks Running

182

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=55

24%

15%

18%

24%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 52%

The "good card" funnel

336 brought · 175 players

Brought to game

336

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ +1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=51) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=212).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=29).

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 +14.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +28.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

93 instances

7.5%

Library

41.9%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Yuma, Proud Protector 29 decks
2 Hazezon, Shaper of Sand 26 decks
3 Krenko, Mob Boss 19 decks
4 Gavi, Nest Warden 12 decks
5 Zaffai, Thunder Conductor 5 decks
6 Kirri, Talented Sprout 4 decks
7 Quintorius, History Chaser 4 decks
8 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 3 decks
9 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 3 decks
10 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 3 decks

Card text

Desert of the Fervent

Land — Desert

This land enters tapped. {T}

: Add

. Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Common · Illustrated by Titus Lunter

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.