Live Play Data

Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

Legendary Land · Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1517

Decks Running

682

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=255

17%

15%

14%

15%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

1518 brought · 582 players

Brought to game

1518

Ever drawn

338

Reached battlefield

255

Still on board at game end

215

Once cast, 84% 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.

≥ -5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=233) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=991).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=74).

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 +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.3pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

391 instances

2.8%

Library

55.0%

Battlefield

21.7%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.