Live Play Data

Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge

Instant // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3266

Decks Running

1400

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=485

11%

13%

14%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 22% (54 / 485 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

3266 brought · 1061 players

Brought to game

3266

Ever drawn

775

Reached battlefield

485

Still on board at game end

186

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=453) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=2123).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=254).

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 +1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +5.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

879 instances

3.3%

Library

21.2%

Battlefield

44.9%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 47 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 38 decks
3 Queen Marchesa 33 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 29 decks
5 Norin the Wary 28 decks
6 Kratos, God of War 25 decks
7 Lorehold, the Historian 24 decks
8 Deadpool, Trading Card 22 decks
9 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 22 decks
10 Smaug the Magnificent 18 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.