Live Play Data

Volcanic Torrent

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

701

Decks Running

349

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=117

64%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 15% (9 / 117 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

701 brought · 317 players

Brought to game

701

Ever drawn

196

Reached battlefield

117

Still on board at game end

≥ +12.1pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=113) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=456).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=77).

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 +21.5pp; 95% confidence interval +12.1pp to +30.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

213 instances

4.7%

Library

7.5%

Battlefield

45.5%

Graveyard

12.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 104 decks
2 Stella Lee, Wild Card 22 decks
3 Averna, the Chaos Bloom 18 decks
4 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 17 decks
5 Vivi Ornitier 12 decks
6 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 11 decks
7 Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder 10 decks
8 Ashaya's Enduring Bond 8 decks
9 Rocco, Street Chef 8 decks
10 Prismari, the Inspiration 7 decks

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

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.