Live Play Data

Volatile Stormdrake

· Creature — Drake · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

317

Decks Running

170

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=58

10%

22%

38%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 5% (1 / 58 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

317 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

317

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ +5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=52) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=170).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=29).

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 +18.8pp; 95% confidence interval +5.4pp to +32.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

110 instances

2.7%

Library

19.1%

Battlefield

46.4%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 13 decks
2 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 12 decks
3 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 12 decks
4 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 11 decks
5 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 11 decks
6 Zedruu the Greathearted 6 decks
7 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 5 decks
8 Arthur, Marigold Knight 4 decks
9 Elrond, Moon-Reader 3 decks
10 Muddle, the Ever-Changing 3 decks

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

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.