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Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge

Instant // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

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Times Brought

483

Decks Running

245

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

107 instances

4.7%

Library

27.1%

Battlefield

40.2%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 7 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 7 decks
3 Queen Marchesa 7 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 6 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 6 decks
6 Norin the Wary 6 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks
8 Jaws, Relentless Predator 4 decks
9 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 4 decks
10 Smaug the Impenetrable 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

485 brought · 214 players

Brought to game

485

Ever drawn

101

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=55) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=308).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=30).

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 -1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +5.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=67

10%

16%

13%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 34% (11 / 67 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.