Live Play Data

Sodden Verdure

Land — Forest Island · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

12%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

647

Decks Running

300

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

88%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

88% 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 198 times the card reached a player's hand, 88% 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 300 of the 2572 distinct decks tracked on Playgroup Live, good for an 12% inclusion rate across the live dataset. The concentration numbers are healthy: 259 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.

At a glance

12% of tracked Commander decks include Sodden Verdure
88% of drawn copies reach the battlefield before the game ends
T4.0 median turn Sodden Verdure is first played
93% battlefield stickiness once played
259 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=174

17%

10%

16%

10%

11%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 59%

The "good card" funnel

648 brought · 259 players

Brought to game

648

Ever drawn

198

Reached battlefield

174

Still on board at game end

162

88%

Of 648 Sodden Verdures brought to tracked games, 198 were drawn and 174 were played, with the overwhelming majority staying on the battlefield through the end of the game.

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=168) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=391).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=23) — 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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

213 instances

2.8%

Library

76.1%

Battlefield

7.5%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

The 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 60 decks
2 Ashling, the Limitless 44 decks
3 Leonardo, the Balance 34 decks
4 Mister Fantastic 20 decks
5 Heroes in a Half Shell 12 decks
6 The Astonishing Ant-Man 8 decks
7 Invisible Woman 6 decks
8 Quandrix, the Proof 6 decks
9 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 4 decks
10 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 4 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.

Frequently Asked

How often is Sodden Verdure drawn in a Commander game?

Across 630 tracked multiplayer games where Sodden Verdure was in the deck, it was drawn 31% of the time. That is in line with what you expect for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of the 198 copies that reached a hand, 88% were played before the game ended.

What turn does Sodden Verdure usually hit the battlefield?

The median first-play turn is 4.0. The p25 is turn 2 and the p75 is turn 6, meaning the middle half of casts fall between those two turns. A notable cluster lands on turn 1, which represents players who kept it in their opening hand alongside two or more basics and played it untapped immediately.

Does Sodden Verdure enter tapped or untapped in practice?

The card enters untapped only when you already control two or more basic lands. The strong same-turn play rate (59% of drawn-and-played copies reach the battlefield the same turn they were drawn) suggests players often have the condition met when they draw it mid-game, or they are choosing to play it early for the untapped mana. Early-game copies drawn into an undeveloped board will typically enter tapped.

Which commanders run Sodden Verdure most often on Playgroup Live?

Zimone, Infinite Analyst leads the list by raw deck count. The card is a natural fit for any Simic (GU) commander that wants a dual land counting as both Forest and Island. It also shows up in five-color lists led by Ashling the Limitless and Leonardo the Balance, where basic land counts tend to be lower and the enter-tapped condition comes up more often.

Is Sodden Verdure banned anywhere?

Sodden Verdure is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Duel Commander, Gladiator, and Oathbreaker. It is not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Brawl, Pauper, or Pauper Commander. No ban is currently in effect in any format where it is legal.

How reliable is the Sodden Verdure data on Playgroup Live?

The multiplayer dataset covers 630 tracked games and 300 decks. Concentration is well spread: 259 distinct players have contributed instances, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for about 4% of all instances. Both conditions support treating the numbers as a representative directional signal rather than an outlier driven by one player's habits. Sample sizes for win-rate buckets are above 100 observations each, which adds further weight to those figures as early-signal reads.