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Boltwave
·
Sorcery
·
Foundations (FDN)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
202
Decks Running
112
In Decks
896
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
44 instances4.5%
Library
11.4%
Battlefield
56.8%
Graveyard
11.4%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid
17 decks
-
2
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
14 decks
-
3
Prismari, the Inspiration
6 decks
-
4
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
6 decks
-
5
Abaddon the Despoiler
4 decks
-
6
Alania, Divergent Storm
4 decks
-
7
Krenko, Mob Boss
4 decks
-
8
Neheb, the Eternal
4 decks
-
9
Storm, Force of Nature
4 decks
-
10
Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
3 decks
The "good card" funnel
202 brought · 101 playersBrought to game
202
Ever drawn
38
Reached battlefield
28
Still on board at game end
5
≥ -7.8pp
Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=27) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=141).
Observed gap +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval -7.8pp to +28.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=28
7%
T1
0%
T2
14%
T3
11%
T4
11%
T5
46%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
12
On curve
7%
(2 / 28 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
36%
28 of 100 times cast
28%
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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.