Live Play Data

Brainsurge

· Instant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

597

Decks Running

310

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=124

11%

10%

50%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 19% (14 / 124 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

597 brought · 274 players

Brought to game

597

Ever drawn

183

Reached battlefield

124

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=108) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=341).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=52).

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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

194 instances

5.2%

Library

4.6%

Battlefield

59.3%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Brainsurge

Instant

Draw four cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Liiga Smilshkalne

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.