Live Play Data

Scourge of Valkas

· Creature — Dragon · Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1465

Decks Running

527

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=257

13%

18%

54%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 35% (46 / 257 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

1466 brought · 474 players

Brought to game

1466

Ever drawn

349

Reached battlefield

257

Still on board at game end

161

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +13.6pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=233) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=921).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=80).

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 +20.1pp; 95% confidence interval +13.6pp to +26.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

371 instances

2.7%

Library

43.4%

Battlefield

26.1%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 177 decks
2 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 59 decks
3 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 51 decks
4 Ureni of the Unwritten 47 decks
5 Atarka, World Render 43 decks
6 Rivaz of the Claw 19 decks
7 Tiamat 17 decks
8 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 15 decks
9 Ganax, Astral Hunter 11 decks
10 Scion of the Ur-Dragon 11 decks

Card text

Scourge of Valkas

Creature — Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature or another Dragon you control enters, it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of Dragons you control. {R}

: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

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Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lucas Graciano

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.