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Valakut Exploration

· Enchantment · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

280

Decks Running

143

In Decks

1190

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

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) — 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 +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.

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%

39 of 100 times cast 39%

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.