Live Play Data

Alania, Divergent Storm

· Legendary Creature — Otter Wizard · Bloomburrow (BLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

156

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=81

15%

36%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 64% (29 / 81 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

157 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

157

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -11.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=24) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=96).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=15).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -11.2pp to +26.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

6.4%

Library

34.0%

Battlefield

27.7%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gandalf, Party Guest 24 decks
2 Bria, Riptide Rogue 14 decks
3 Prismari, the Inspiration 4 decks
4 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 4 decks
5 Vivi Ornitier 3 decks
6 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 2 decks
7 Cormela, Glamour Thief 2 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
9 Iroh, Grand Lotus 2 decks
10 Kalamax, the Stormsire 2 decks

Card text

Alania, Divergent Storm

Legendary Creature — Otter Wizard

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the first instant spell, the first sorcery spell, or the first Otter spell other than Alania you've cast this turn, you may have target opponent draw a card. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

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Bloomburrow (BLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Joshua Raphael

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.