Live Play Data

Lavalanche

· Sorcery · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

143

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=20

70%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 7 · P75 11 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

143 brought · 69 players

Brought to game

143

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.5pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=19) , vs 12% when it never left the library (n=97).

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 +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval -8.5pp to +31.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

34 instances

11.8%

Library

8.8%

Battlefield

47.1%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash 15 decks
2 Lord Windgrace 13 decks
3 Jared Carthalion 12 decks
4 Omnath, Locus of All 10 decks
5 Saskia the Unyielding 5 decks
6 Kresh the Bloodbraided 3 decks
7 Thantis, the Warweaver 2 decks
8 Bhaal, Lord of Murder 1 decks
9 Cecily, Haunted Mage 1 decks
10 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 1 decks

Card text

Lavalanche

Sorcery

Lavalanche deals X damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

Dominaria United Commander (DMC) · Rare · Illustrated by Steve Argyle

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.