Live Play Data

Sandstorm Verge

Land — Desert · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

136

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

86%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

16%

13%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 11

Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

136 brought · 60 players

Brought to game

136

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ -12.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=28) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=86).

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 +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -12.7pp to +22.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

41 instances

65.9%

Battlefield

14.6%

Graveyard

12.2%

Exile

7.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazezon, Shaper of Sand 14 decks
2 Yuma, Proud Protector 5 decks
3 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 3 decks
4 Exdeath, Void Warlock // Neo Exdeath, Dimension's End 2 decks
5 Fynn, the Fangbearer 2 decks
6 The Infamous Cruelclaw 2 decks
7 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 2 decks
8 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah // Ajani, Nacatl Avenger 1 decks
9 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 1 decks
10 Berta, Wise Extrapolator 1 decks

Card text

Sandstorm Verge

Land — Desert

: Add

: Target creature can't block this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jorge Jacinto

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.