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Scoured Barrens

Land · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

591

Decks Running

285

In Decks

2466

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

175 instances

1.7%

Library

74.3%

Battlefield

13.1%

Graveyard

1.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 27 decks
2 Edgar Markov 18 decks
3 Inquisitor Greyfax 17 decks
4 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 16 decks
5 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 13 decks
6 Marneus Calgar 11 decks
7 Teysa Karlov 11 decks
8 Kaalia of the Vast 8 decks
9 Sam, Loyal Attendant 8 decks
10 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

591 brought · 273 players

Brought to game

591

Ever drawn

163

Reached battlefield

132

Still on board at game end

130

Once cast, 98% 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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=124) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=355).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=28) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=132

26%

13%

10%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 63%

578 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.