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Volcanic Torrent

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

183

Decks Running

117

In Decks

824

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Volcanic Torrent

Sorcery

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Volcanic Torrent deals X damage to each creature and planeswalker your opponents control, where X is the number of spells you've cast this turn.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Grzegorz Rutkowski

Final zone distribution

41 instances

4.9%

Library

4.9%

Battlefield

51.2%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 46 decks
2 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 5 decks
3 Averna, the Chaos Bloom 5 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks
5 Stella Lee, Wild Card 4 decks
6 Maelstrom Wanderer 3 decks
7 Prosper, Tome-Bound 3 decks
8 Radha, Heir to Keld 3 decks
9 Ashaya's Enduring Bond 2 decks
10 Codie, Vociferous Codex 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

183 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

183

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 56% of the time (n=21) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=129).

Observed gap +28.3pp; 95% confidence interval +4.8pp to +51.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=24

13%

17%

63%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 29% (4 / 24 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

24 of 100 times cast 24%

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.