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Scourge of Valkas

· Creature — Dragon · Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

650

Decks Running

263

In Decks

1690

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

165 instances

3.6%

Library

44.8%

Battlefield

22.4%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

650 brought · 243 players

Brought to game

650

Ever drawn

153

Reached battlefield

108

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ +7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=101) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=421).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=40) — 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 +16.7pp; 95% confidence interval +7.2pp to +26.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=108

17%

53%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 37% (18 / 108 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

628 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.