Live Play Data

Sunbaked Canyon

Land · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1462

Decks Running

618

Median Cast Turn

4.5

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=262

11%

13%

15%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 47%

The "good card" funnel

1462 brought · 606 players

Brought to game

1462

Ever drawn

366

Reached battlefield

262

Still on board at game end

204

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ -3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=248) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=922).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=92).

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 +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -3.4pp to +8.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

398 instances

2.8%

Library

51.3%

Battlefield

24.1%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Tenth Doctor 41 decks
2 Edgar Markov 40 decks
3 Winota, Joiner of Forces 34 decks
4 Lightning, Army of One 26 decks
5 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 23 decks
6 Mr. House, President and CEO 23 decks
7 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 20 decks
8 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 17 decks
9 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 16 decks
10 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 15 decks

Card text

Sunbaked Canyon

Land

, Pay 1 life: Add {R}

, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Modern Horizons (MH1) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.