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Volcanic Island

Land — Island Mountain · Vintage Masters (VMA)

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Times Brought

1805

Decks Running

765

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

Volcanic Island

Land — Island Mountain

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

Final zone distribution

655 instances

1.5%

Library

84.9%

Battlefield

5.6%

Graveyard

2.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 78 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 41 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 34 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 26 decks
5 Flubs, the Fool 18 decks
6 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 17 decks
7 The First Sliver 17 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 16 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 15 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 14 decks

The "good card" funnel

1805 brought · 598 players

Brought to game

1805

Ever drawn

630

Reached battlefield

586

Still on board at game end

556

Once cast, 95% 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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=474) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=847).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=34).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +4.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=586

31%

18%

14%

10%

16%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 17

Cast same turn as drawn 67%

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.