Live Play Data

Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge

Instant // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2485

Decks Running

1109

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=377

12%

10%

14%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 23% (45 / 377 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

2485 brought · 854 players

Brought to game

2485

Ever drawn

583

Reached battlefield

377

Still on board at game end

140

Once cast, 37% 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 30% of the time (n=357) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=1631).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=181).

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 +1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.4pp to +6.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

664 instances

3.6%

Library

21.1%

Battlefield

45.2%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 38 decks
2 Queen Marchesa 32 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 28 decks
4 Deadpool, Trading Card 21 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 21 decks
6 Lorehold, the Historian 21 decks
7 Norin the Wary 21 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 20 decks
9 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 20 decks
10 Smaug the Impenetrable 16 decks

Card text

Valakut Awakening

Instant

Put any number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your library, then draw that many cards plus one.

Valakut Stoneforge

Land

This land enters tapped. {T}

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Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Rare · Illustrated by Campbell White

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.