Live Play Data

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Land · Zendikar (ZEN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1722

Decks Running

730

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=333

32%

11%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 66%

The "good card" funnel

1722 brought · 621 players

Brought to game

1722

Ever drawn

432

Reached battlefield

333

Still on board at game end

304

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=306) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1103).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=87).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +9.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

489 instances

3.3%

Library

62.2%

Battlefield

14.1%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, God of War 61 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 51 decks
3 Jaws, Relentless Predator 36 decks
4 Smaug the Magnificent 33 decks
5 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 26 decks
6 Norin the Wary 26 decks
7 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 21 decks
8 Flubs, the Fool 19 decks
9 Omnath, Locus of Creation 14 decks
10 Knuckles the Echidna 13 decks

Card text

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Land

This land enters tapped. Whenever a Mountain you control enters, if you control at least five other Mountains, you may have this land deal 3 damage to any target. {T}

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Zendikar (ZEN) · Rare · Illustrated by Kieran Yanner

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.