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Volcanic Torrent

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

392

Decks Running

206

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 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

89 instances

2.2%

Library

9.0%

Battlefield

43.8%

Graveyard

13.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 74 decks
2 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 17 decks
3 Stella Lee, Wild Card 15 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 12 decks
5 Averna, the Chaos Bloom 10 decks
6 Prismari, the Inspiration 6 decks
7 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 4 decks
8 Maelstrom Wanderer 4 decks
9 The Scarlet Witch 4 decks
10 Radha, Heir to Keld 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

392 brought · 202 players

Brought to game

392

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=43) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=206).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=20).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +13.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=55

15%

62%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 22% (8 / 55 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.