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Foreboding Ruins

Land · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

2680

Decks Running

1363

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Alexander Gering

Final zone distribution

632 instances

1.4%

Library

69.1%

Battlefield

16.1%

Graveyard

2.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 224 decks
2 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 108 decks
3 Terra, Herald of Hope 84 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 82 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 57 decks
6 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 36 decks
7 Abaddon the Despoiler 33 decks
8 The Great Goblin 28 decks
9 Deadpool, Trading Card 27 decks
10 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 26 decks

The "good card" funnel

2680 brought · 1124 players

Brought to game

2680

Ever drawn

580

Reached battlefield

454

Still on board at game end

437

Once cast, 96% 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.

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=333) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1418).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=93).

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 +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +3.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=454

34%

13%

10%

20%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 68%

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.