Live Play Data

Sunscorched Desert

Land — Desert · Amonkhet (AKH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

288

Decks Running

150

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

83%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=73

15%

19%

12%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 54%

The "good card" funnel

288 brought · 145 players

Brought to game

288

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=68) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=167).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.6pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

99 instances

2.0%

Library

61.6%

Battlefield

16.2%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 24 decks
2 Hazezon, Shaper of Sand 18 decks
3 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 10 decks
4 The Infamous Cruelclaw 8 decks
5 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 7 decks
6 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 4 decks
7 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 4 decks
8 The Necrobloom 4 decks
9 Yuma, Proud Protector 4 decks
10 Kratos, God of War 3 decks

Card text

Sunscorched Desert

Land — Desert

When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. {T}

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Amonkhet (AKH) · Common · Illustrated by Min Yum

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.