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Boltwave
·
Sorcery
·
Foundations (FDN)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
247
Decks Running
136
In Decks
1018
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Card text
Boltwave
Sorcery
Boltwave deals 3 damage to each opponent.
Foundations (FDN)
·
Uncommon
·
Illustrated by Caio Monteiro
Final zone distribution
55 instances5.5%
Library
10.9%
Battlefield
58.2%
Graveyard
10.9%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid
18 decks
-
2
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
17 decks
-
3
Prismari, the Inspiration
7 decks
-
4
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
6 decks
-
5
Abaddon the Despoiler
4 decks
-
6
Alania, Divergent Storm
4 decks
-
7
Black Waltz No. 3
4 decks
-
8
Krenko, Mob Boss
4 decks
-
9
Massimo, the Magician
4 decks
-
10
Neheb, the Eternal
4 decks
The "good card" funnel
247 brought · 121 playersBrought to game
247
Ever drawn
49
Reached battlefield
36
Still on board at game end
6
≥ -9.4pp
Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=33) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=174).
Observed gap +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -9.4pp to +22.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=36
6%
T1
0%
T2
11%
T3
14%
T4
8%
T5
47%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
16
On curve
6%
(2 / 36 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
42%
36 of 100 times cast
36%
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.