Live Play Data

Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

Legendary Land · Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1087

Decks Running

504

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=185

15%

19%

14%

12%

11%

24%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

1088 brought · 442 players

Brought to game

1088

Ever drawn

247

Reached battlefield

185

Still on board at game end

157

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=172) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=707).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=53).

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 +1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +7.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

291 instances

3.4%

Library

54.0%

Battlefield

21.3%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Winota, Joiner of Forces 34 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 14 decks
3 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 13 decks
4 Norin the Wary 13 decks
5 Baylen, the Haymaker 12 decks
6 Sonic the Hedgehog 12 decks
7 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 11 decks
8 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 11 decks
9 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 8 decks
10 Zurgo Stormrender 8 decks

Card text

Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

Legendary Land

: Add

. Channel — {3}

, Discard this card: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs {1}

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO) · Rare · Illustrated by Lucas Staniec

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.