Live Play Data

Volrath's Stronghold

Legendary Land · Tempest Remastered (TPR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

429

Decks Running

200

Median Cast Turn

3.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=74

26%

15%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 17

Cast same turn as drawn 51%

The "good card" funnel

429 brought · 178 players

Brought to game

429

Ever drawn

103

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -16.6pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=65) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=264).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=28).

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 -6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -16.6pp to +3.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

120 instances

5.0%

Library

55.8%

Battlefield

12.5%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 13 decks
2 Teval, the Balanced Scale 9 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 8 decks
4 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 5 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 5 decks
6 Queen Marchesa 4 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 4 decks
8 The Infamous Cruelclaw 4 decks
9 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 4 decks
10 Greasefang, Okiba Boss 3 decks

Card text

Volrath's Stronghold

Legendary Land

: Add

: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Tempest Remastered (TPR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Kev Walker

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.