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Brainsurge

· Instant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

201

Decks Running

120

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

54 instances

5.6%

Library

55.6%

Graveyard

16.7%

Exile

22.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 9 decks
2 The Astonishing Ant-Man 8 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 6 decks
4 Marvo, Deep Operative 5 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 5 decks
6 Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle 4 decks
7 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 4 decks
8 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign 4 decks
9 Arthur, Marigold Knight 3 decks
10 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

201 brought · 114 players

Brought to game

201

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=29) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=115).

Observed gap +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +13.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

14%

17%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 9

On curve 33% (5 / 36 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.