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Call Forth the Tempest

· Sorcery · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

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Times Brought

202

Decks Running

127

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

Call Forth the Tempest

Sorcery

Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. Then do it again.) Call Forth the Tempest deals damage to each creature your opponents control equal to the total mana value of other spells you've cast this turn.

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Campbell White

Final zone distribution

45 instances

6.7%

Library

13.3%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gandalf, Party Guest 14 decks
2 Lorehold, the Historian 14 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 7 decks
4 Magar of the Magic Strings 7 decks
5 Ruby, Daring Tracker 7 decks
6 Maelstrom Wanderer 4 decks
7 Saruman, the White Hand 4 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 3 decks
9 The Infamous Cruelclaw 3 decks
10 The Scarlet Witch 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

202 brought · 117 players

Brought to game

202

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=16) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=115).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=19).

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 +15.4pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +26.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

15%

55%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 27

On curve 70% (1 / 20 cast on T8)

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.