Live Play Data

Emergence Zone

Land · War of the Spark (WAR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2763

Decks Running

1308

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=461

13%

14%

17%

13%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

2763 brought · 976 players

Brought to game

2763

Ever drawn

695

Reached battlefield

461

Still on board at game end

374

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ +3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=413) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1692).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=202).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval +3.5pp to +13.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

785 instances

3.6%

Library

47.6%

Battlefield

21.3%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 49 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 44 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 36 decks
4 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 28 decks
5 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 24 decks
6 Urza, Lord High Artificer 22 decks
7 Thrasios, Triton Hero 20 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 20 decks
9 Fire Lord Zuko 17 decks
10 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 17 decks

Card text

Emergence Zone

Land

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

War of the Spark (WAR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jonas De Ro

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.