Live Play Data

Stormcarved Coast

Land · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

19%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1904

Decks Running

882

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

19% of tracked Commander decks in Playgroup Live's Izzet-accessible pool run Stormcarved Coast, and when drawn it reaches the battlefield 74% of the time with a median first-play turn of 4.0.

Stormcarved Coast shows up in 19% of tracked Commander decks on Playgroup Live, appearing in 882 of the 4749 distinct decks that have played a tracked game. That makes it one of the more-played dual lands among decks running red and blue.

The card's job is simple: enter untapped if you have two or more other lands in play, then tap for blue or red. In practice, 74% of drawn copies reach the battlefield before the game ends, and 93% of those that resolve stay there through the end of the game. Lands rarely get answered, and these numbers reflect that.

The top commanders running the card are heavily Izzet-identity commanders, with Vivi Ornitier leading the list. Notably, the data is well-spread: 741 distinct players have brought Stormcarved Coast to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for just 2% of all instances, which is a healthy distribution across the dataset.

At a glance

19% of tracked Commander decks include Stormcarved Coast
74% of drawn copies reach the battlefield before the game ends
T4.0 median turn the land first enters play
93% battlefield stickiness once it resolves
741 distinct players have brought it to a tracked game, a well-spread sample
34% win rate in games where Stormcarved Coast entered the battlefield

First-cast turn

n=376

10%

23%

15%

10%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

1906 brought · 741 players

Brought to game

1906

Ever drawn

506

Reached battlefield

376

Still on board at game end

348

74%

Of 1906 Stormcarved Coasts brought to games, 506 were drawn, 376 of those were played, and the vast majority stayed on the battlefield through the end of the game.

≥ +7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=353) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=1199).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 44% (n=116) — 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 +12.7pp; 95% confidence interval +7.8pp to +17.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

550 instances

3.6%

Library

63.3%

Battlefield

13.6%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Most singleton lands never leave the library in any given game, so the library bucket here is expected. The meaningful signal is how many copies that were drawn made it onto the battlefield and stayed there.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 35 decks
2 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 29 decks
3 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 27 decks
4 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 26 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 23 decks
6 The Tenth Doctor 21 decks
7 Kratos, Stoic Father 18 decks
8 Prismari, the Inspiration 16 decks
9 Sauron, the Dark Lord 16 decks
10 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 15 decks

Izzet-identity commanders dominate the list, as expected for a blue-red dual land. The spread across more than a dozen distinct commanders suggests broad adoption rather than concentration in a single archetype.

Card text

Stormcarved Coast

Land

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}

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Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Leon Tukker

Frequently Asked

How often is Stormcarved Coast drawn in a Commander game?

Across 1778 tracked games where the card was in the deck, it was drawn 27% of the time. That is consistent with a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 506 instances that reached a hand, 74% were played before the game ended. The remainder is mostly a game-length effect: lands drawn very late rarely get the chance to hit the table.

What turn does Stormcarved Coast typically enter play?

The median first-play turn is 4.0. The distribution clusters around turns 2-4, with a long tail extending toward the midgame. That early cluster reflects opening-hand copies and aggressive mulliganing for a usable mana base. The p25 is turn 3 and the p75 is turn 6, so most copies land in that window.

Does playing Stormcarved Coast actually correlate with winning?

In 353 participations where Stormcarved Coast reached the battlefield, the caster won 34% of the time. In participations where the card stayed in the library, the win rate was 21%. That is a +12.7 percentage-point lift. The sample is large enough to treat this as a consistent directional signal rather than noise, though correlation with mana-base quality makes causal claims difficult.

Is Stormcarved Coast legal in Commander?

Yes. Stormcarved Coast is legal in Commander, as well as Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Historic, Vintage, and most other sanctioned formats. It is not legal in Pauper or Pauper Commander, as it is a rare.

Why is Stormcarved Coast popular in Izzet Commander decks?

Stormcarved Coast enters untapped as long as you control two or more other lands, which is a condition easily met by turn 3 in most Commander games. That makes it effectively a free dual land in the mid-game, producing either blue or red without any life payment. In a format where every slot matters and color fixing is critical for multicolor strategies, a rare dual that enters untapped more often than not is a reliable pick.

How concentrated is the Stormcarved Coast data across players?

Very well-spread. 741 distinct players have brought Stormcarved Coast to a tracked game on Playgroup Live. The single heaviest contributor accounts for just 2% of all instances. This breadth means the stats are not driven by one or two active grinders, which strengthens confidence in the directional signals the data shows.