Live Play Data

Valakut Exploration

· Enchantment · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

280

Decks Running

143

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=39

13%

18%

13%

26%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 31% (7 / 39 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

280 brought · 134 players

Brought to game

280

Ever drawn

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.

≥ +4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=37) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=179).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=31).

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 +20.0pp; 95% confidence interval +4.5pp to +35.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

82 instances

1.2%

Library

35.4%

Battlefield

28.0%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 29 decks
2 Flubs, the Fool 17 decks
3 Toph, the First Metalbender 9 decks
4 Prosper, Tome-Bound 5 decks
5 Omnath, Locus of Creation 4 decks
6 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign 4 decks
7 The Wandering Minstrel 4 decks
8 Norin the Wary 3 decks
9 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 3 decks
10 Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith 3 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.