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Volatile Stormdrake

· Creature — Drake · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

289

Decks Running

134

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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.

3 / 2

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

Final zone distribution

71 instances

2.8%

Library

22.5%

Battlefield

26.8%

Graveyard

16.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 18 decks
2 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 12 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 11 decks
4 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 6 decks
5 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 5 decks
6 Arthur, Marigold Knight 4 decks
7 Thrasios, Triton Hero 4 decks
8 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 4 decks
9 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 3 decks
10 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

289 brought · 121 players

Brought to game

289

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=35) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=152).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=19).

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 +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -4.8pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

20%

22%

17%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 7% (2 / 41 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.