Live Play Data

Boltwave

· Sorcery · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

865

Decks Running

438

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=144

10%

12%

14%

49%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 4% (6 / 144 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

865 brought · 380 players

Brought to game

865

Ever drawn

195

Reached battlefield

144

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=129) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=569).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=44).

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 +6.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

218 instances

2.8%

Library

11.5%

Battlefield

57.8%

Graveyard

12.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 55 decks
2 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 51 decks
3 Massimo, the Magician 23 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 21 decks
5 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 21 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 18 decks
7 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 15 decks
8 Storm, Force of Nature 13 decks
9 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary 11 decks
10 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 11 decks

Card text

Boltwave

Sorcery

Boltwave deals 3 damage to each opponent.

Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Caio Monteiro

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.