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Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge

Instant // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

985

Decks Running

450

In Decks

2812

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

278 instances

4.3%

Library

20.1%

Battlefield

47.8%

Graveyard

11.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 12 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 12 decks
3 Lorehold, the Historian 11 decks
4 Queen Marchesa 11 decks
5 Deadpool, Trading Card 10 decks
6 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 10 decks
7 Lightning, Army of One 9 decks
8 Norin the Wary 9 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 8 decks
10 Smaug the Impenetrable 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

985 brought · 359 players

Brought to game

985

Ever drawn

242

Reached battlefield

164

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 34% 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.

≥ -9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=153) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=634).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=65) — 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 -2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -9.7pp to +4.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=164

12%

10%

14%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 22% (20 / 164 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

924 of 300 tracked games 99%

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. Playgroup has recorded 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.