Live Play Data

Polluted Delta

Land · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

11%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

8649

Decks Running

4030

Median Cast Turn

3.0

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1516

25%

14%

11%

10%

24%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 58%

The "good card" funnel

8652 brought · 2059 players

Brought to game

8652

Ever drawn

2206

Reached battlefield

1516

Still on board at game end

120

Once cast, 8% 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.

≥ +5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=1390) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=5302).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=613).

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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval +5.3pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2517 instances

4.2%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

62.7%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Polluted Delta

Land

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Ostrowski

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.