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Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure

Sorcery // Land · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

368

Decks Running

209

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Sundering Eruption

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

Volcanic Fissure

Land

As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Yohann Schepacz

Final zone distribution

74 instances

4.1%

Library

37.8%

Battlefield

20.3%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 9 decks
2 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 6 decks
3 Deadpool, Trading Card 6 decks
4 Jaws, Relentless Predator 5 decks
5 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 5 decks
6 Sonic the Hedgehog 5 decks
7 Bumi, Unleashed 4 decks
8 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 4 decks
9 Pako, Arcane Retriever 4 decks
10 Spider-Man 2099 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

369 brought · 184 players

Brought to game

369

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=33) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=226).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=25) — 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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +15.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

10%

18%

10%

20%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 35% (7 / 40 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

40 of 100 times cast 40%

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Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.