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Alania, Divergent Storm

{3} {U} {R} · Legendary Creature — Otter Wizard · Bloomburrow (BLB)
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Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
149
Decks Running
68
In Decks
447
Decklist Inclusion
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Alania, Divergent Storm card

Alania, Divergent Storm

{3} {U} {R}
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

Final zone distribution

75 instances
1.3%
Library
40.0%
Battlefield
14.7%
Graveyard
1.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

149 brought · 65 players
Brought to game
149
Ever drawn
34
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
30

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -15.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=21) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=86).

Observed gap +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -15.6pp to +24.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
4%
T4
17%
T5
57%
T6-9
22%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15
On curve 22% (4 / 23 cast on T5)
23 of 100 times cast 23%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.