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Part of Starter Commander Decks
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Creature — Elemental
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Battlebond (BBD)
Live Play Data
Magmatic Force
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
160
Decks Running
68
Median Cast Turn
8
Drawn → Played
47%
Format
First-cast turn
n=21
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
5%
T4
14%
T5
48%
T6-9
33%
T10+
Median
8
P25
6
· P75
10
· max
12
On curve
62%
(4 / 21 cast on T8)
The "good card" funnel
160 brought · 70 playersBrought to game
160
Ever drawn
45
Reached battlefield
21
Still on board at game end
12
Once cast, 57% 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.
≥ -5.2pp
Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=16) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=87).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=18).
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 +18.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.2pp to +42.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
49 instances2.0%
Library
24.5%
Battlefield
24.5%
Graveyard
8.2%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Kardur, Doomscourge
27 decks
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2
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
6 decks
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3
Kaervek the Merciless
3 decks
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4
The Infamous Cruelclaw
3 decks
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5
Ashling, Flame Dancer
2 decks
-
6
Jhoira of the Ghitu
2 decks
-
7
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
2 decks
-
8
Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
2 decks
-
9
Ashling, the Limitless
1 decks
-
10
Baral and Kari Zev
1 decks
Card text
Magmatic Force
Creature — Elemental
At the beginning of each upkeep, this creature deals 3 damage to any target.
7 / 7
Battlebond (BBD)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Jung Park
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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.