Sodden Verdure
85% of drawn Sodden Verdure copies reach the battlefield, the highest play-through rate we see for any dual land in the dataset, with a median first cast landing on turn 4.0.
Sodden Verdure converts Green-Blue mana bases into smoother early turns, and tracked games show it. Of the 337 times the card reached a player's hand, 85% resulted in it being played before the game ended. That is a strong signal for a land that enters tapped unless two or more basic lands are already in play.
The card sits in 508 of the 4369 distinct decks tracked on Playgroup Live, good for an 12% inclusion rate across the live dataset. The concentration numbers are healthy: 439 unique players have brought it to a tracked game, and no single player accounts for more than 4% of all instances, so the data reflects a genuinely broad slice of the GU and five-color meta.
Sodden Verdure is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Duel Commander, Gladiator, and Oathbreaker. It is not legal in Modern, Pioneer, or Standard. Its Forest-Island dual typing means it is fetchable with cards like Misty Rainforest and counts as both land types for effects that care about basics, which is the core reason it slots cleanly into two-basic-rich lists.
- 12% of tracked Commander decks include Sodden Verdure
- 85% of drawn copies reach the battlefield before the game ends
- T4.0 median turn Sodden Verdure is first played
- 92% battlefield stickiness once played
- 439 unique players have brought it to a tracked game, a well-spread sample
- 31% draw rate, typical for a singleton in a 100-card deck
First-cast turn
n=286The "good card" funnel
1097 brought · 439 playersOf 1097 Sodden Verdures brought to tracked games, 337 were drawn and 286 were played, with the overwhelming majority staying on the battlefield through the end of the game.
Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=275) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=633).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=50) — 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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.1pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
367 instancesThe vast majority of Sodden Verdure copies end the game on the battlefield, reflecting how quickly land-slot cards get deployed once drawn, and how rarely opponents spend removal on a dual land.
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Zimone, Infinite Analyst
95 decks
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2
Ashling, the Limitless
72 decks
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3
Leonardo, the Balance
50 decks
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4
Mister Fantastic
31 decks
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5
Heroes in a Half Shell
22 decks
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6
The Astonishing Ant-Man
16 decks
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7
Invisible Woman
9 decks
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8
Primo, the Unbounded
9 decks
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9
Quandrix, the Proof
9 decks
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10
Zaxara, the Exemplary
7 decks
Zimone, Infinite Analyst dominates the top-commander list by raw deck count, which fits: GU commanders most naturally meet the two-basic condition that lets Sodden Verdure enter untapped. Five-color commanders fill out the rest of the top ten.