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, , Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You create a Treasure token.
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Volatile Fault
Land — Cave
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Times Brought
300
Decks Running
160
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
Card text
Volatile Fault
Land — Cave
: Add .
, , Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You create a Treasure token.
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
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Uncommon
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Illustrated by Andrew Mar
Final zone distribution
57 instances56.1%
Battlefield
24.6%
Graveyard
3.5%
Exile
15.8%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Magda, Brazen Outlaw
23 decks
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2
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
21 decks
-
3
Ovika, Enigma Goliath
7 decks
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4
Smaug the Magnificent
6 decks
- 5 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 6 decks
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6
Vihaan, Goldwaker
5 decks
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7
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
4 decks
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8
River Song
3 decks
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9
Whtz, the Bibliophile
3 decks
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10
Aragorn, the Uniter
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
300 brought · 151 playersBrought to game
300
Ever drawn
57
Reached battlefield
45
Still on board at game end
32
Once cast, 71% 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.
≥ -12.7pp
Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=34) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=176).
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 -3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -12.7pp to +5.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=45
24%
T1
22%
T2
11%
T3
9%
T4
11%
T5
18%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median
3
P25
2
· P75
5
· max
12
Cast same turn as drawn
58%
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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.