Live Play Data

Volcanic Island

Land — Island Mountain · Vintage Masters (VMA)

12%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2996

Decks Running

1123

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

88%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=965

27%

16%

14%

10%

20%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 17

Cast same turn as drawn 63%

The "good card" funnel

2996 brought · 804 players

Brought to game

2996

Ever drawn

1098

Reached battlefield

965

Still on board at game end

876

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ +2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=866) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1526).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=118).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval +2.4pp to +9.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1183 instances

3.6%

Library

74.0%

Battlefield

9.6%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 74 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 55 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 30 decks
4 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 23 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 23 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 23 decks
7 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 22 decks
8 The First Sliver 21 decks
9 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 20 decks
10 Tymna the Weaver 20 decks

Card text

Volcanic Island

Land — Island Mountain

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Vintage Masters (VMA) · Rare · Illustrated by Noah Bradley

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.