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Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
Instant // Land
·
Zendikar Rising (ZNR)
2%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
577
Decks Running
261
In Decks
1992
Decklist Inclusion
2%
Format
Final zone distribution
161 instances3.7%
Library
21.1%
Battlefield
47.2%
Graveyard
10.6%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Lorehold, the Historian
9 decks
-
2
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
8 decks
-
3
Mr. House, President and CEO
6 decks
-
4
Gornog, the Red Reaper
5 decks
-
5
Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid
5 decks
-
6
Lightning, Army of One
5 decks
-
7
Norin the Wary
5 decks
-
8
Queen Marchesa
5 decks
-
9
Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno
4 decks
-
10
Deadpool, Trading Card
4 decks
The "good card" funnel
577 brought · 207 playersBrought to game
577
Ever drawn
141
Reached battlefield
94
Still on board at game end
34
Once cast, 36% 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.
≥ -12.7pp
Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=92) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=401).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=44) — 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 -3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -12.7pp to +5.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=94
3%
T1
7%
T2
11%
T3
9%
T4
18%
T5
47%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
4
· P75
7
· max
11
On curve
21%
(10 / 94 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
32%
94 of 100 times cast
94%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
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.