Live Play Data

Desert Warfare

· Enchantment · Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

219

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

21%

50%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 11

On curve 13% (1 / 24 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

The "good card" funnel

219 brought · 80 players

Brought to game

219

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=21) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=144).

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

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 +23.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +45.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

55 instances

3.6%

Library

32.7%

Battlefield

20.0%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Desert Warfare

Enchantment

Whenever you sacrifice a Desert and whenever a Desert card is put into your graveyard from your hand or library, put that card onto the battlefield under your control at the beginning of your next end step. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control five or more Deserts, create that many 1/1 red, green, and white Sand Warrior creature tokens. They gain haste.

Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C) · Rare · Illustrated by Alexandre Honoré

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.