Live Play Data

Foreboding Ruins

Land · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

18%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5325

Decks Running

2436

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=975

29%

14%

10%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 61%

The "good card" funnel

5327 brought · 1892 players

Brought to game

5327

Ever drawn

1308

Reached battlefield

975

Still on board at game end

889

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=878) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=3257).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=274).

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 +0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +3.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1501 instances

3.0%

Library

59.2%

Battlefield

19.1%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 292 decks
2 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 207 decks
3 Terra, Herald of Hope 137 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 111 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 110 decks
6 Abaddon the Despoiler 76 decks
7 Kardur, Doomscourge 67 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 67 decks
9 Smaug the Impenetrable 50 decks
10 Ingris Stingerquill 42 decks

Card text

Foreboding Ruins

Land

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}

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Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Dofresh

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.