Live Play Data

Polluted Delta

Land · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

11%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

12160

Decks Running

5485

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=2151

25%

14%

11%

10%

24%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 39

Cast same turn as drawn 58%

The "good card" funnel

12163 brought · 2676 players

Brought to game

12163

Ever drawn

3147

Reached battlefield

2151

Still on board at game end

171

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.

≥ +5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=1967) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=7386).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=890).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.2pp to +9.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

3588 instances

4.0%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

63.2%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 172 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 132 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 113 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 87 decks
5 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 68 decks
6 Teval, the Balanced Scale 64 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 64 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 62 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 62 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 60 decks

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.