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Volatile Stormdrake

· Creature — Drake · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

138

Decks Running

In Decks

744

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Volatile Stormdrake

Creature — Drake

Flying, hexproof from activated and triggered abilities When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and target creature an opponent controls. If you do, you get {E}

, then sacrifice that creature unless you pay an amount of {E}

equal to its mana value.

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Campbell White

Final zone distribution

46 instances

2.2%

Library

17.4%

Battlefield

47.8%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 7 decks
2 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 7 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 6 decks
4 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 6 decks
5 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 4 decks
6 Zedruu the Greathearted 4 decks
7 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 3 decks
8 Araumi of the Dead Tide 2 decks
9 Arthur, Marigold Knight 2 decks
10 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

138 brought · 83 players

Brought to game

138

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 31% 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.

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=24) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=77).

Observed gap +19.8pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +39.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=26

12%

15%

27%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 26 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

26 of 100 times cast 26%

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.