Live Play Data

Valakut Exploration

· Enchantment · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

678

Decks Running

339

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=98

15%

13%

12%

39%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 24% (15 / 98 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

678 brought · 302 players

Brought to game

678

Ever drawn

165

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ +2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=91) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=425).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=62).

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 +12.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.9pp to +22.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

196 instances

2.6%

Library

37.2%

Battlefield

26.0%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 51 decks
2 Flubs, the Fool 45 decks
3 Omnath, Locus of Creation 27 decks
4 Toph, the First Metalbender 19 decks
5 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 10 decks
6 Prosper, Tome-Bound 10 decks
7 Lord Windgrace 8 decks
8 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign 8 decks
9 The Wandering Minstrel 8 decks
10 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher 8 decks

Card text

Valakut Exploration

Enchantment

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. At the beginning of your end step, if there are cards exiled with this enchantment, put them into their owner's graveyard, then this enchantment deals that much damage to each opponent.

Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Rare · Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.