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Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge

Instant // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

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Times Brought

1467

Decks Running

767

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

332 instances

5.4%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

39.5%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 32 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 31 decks
3 Queen Marchesa 20 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 17 decks
5 Norin the Wary 17 decks
6 Smaug the Impenetrable 15 decks
7 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 13 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 13 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 11 decks
10 Smaug the Magnificent 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

1470 brought · 635 players

Brought to game

1470

Ever drawn

310

Reached battlefield

210

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=159) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=825).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=78).

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 -0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +3.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=210

16%

15%

14%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 33% (33 / 210 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

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.