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Tectonic Hazard

· Sorcery · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

173

Decks Running

In Decks

649

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Tectonic Hazard

Sorcery

Tectonic Hazard deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature they control.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Common · Illustrated by Jarel Threat

Final zone distribution

38 instances

5.3%

Library

10.5%

Battlefield

63.2%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 30 decks
2 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 16 decks
3 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 14 decks
4 Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot 4 decks
5 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary 3 decks
6 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 3 decks
7 Hawkeye, Young Avenger 2 decks
8 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 2 decks
9 Vivi Ornitier 2 decks
10 Alania, Divergent Storm 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

173 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

173

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=24) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=118).

Observed gap +11.2pp; 95% confidence interval -9.2pp to +31.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

52%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 4% (1 / 27 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 15%

27 of 100 times cast 27%

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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.