Live Play Data

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Land · Zendikar (ZEN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

928

Decks Running

425

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=170

29%

11%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 65%

The "good card" funnel

928 brought · 381 players

Brought to game

928

Ever drawn

232

Reached battlefield

170

Still on board at game end

151

Once cast, 89% 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.

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=157) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=590).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=53).

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 +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +8.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

267 instances

3.4%

Library

56.6%

Battlefield

17.2%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, God of War 40 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 31 decks
3 Jaws, Relentless Predator 24 decks
4 Smaug the Magnificent 20 decks
5 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 18 decks
6 Norin the Wary 15 decks
7 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 13 decks
8 Thor, God of Thunder 10 decks
9 Flubs, the Fool 9 decks
10 Knuckles the Echidna 7 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.