Live Play Data

Cascading Cataracts

Land · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

873

Decks Running

411

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=161

19%

12%

10%

12%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 55%

The "good card" funnel

873 brought · 365 players

Brought to game

873

Ever drawn

209

Reached battlefield

161

Still on board at game end

155

Once cast, 96% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=146) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=549).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=42).

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 +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

239 instances

2.5%

Library

64.9%

Battlefield

15.1%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 64 decks
2 Jared Carthalion 16 decks
3 The First Sliver 14 decks
4 Tom Bombadil 14 decks
5 Toph, the First Metalbender 12 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 11 decks
7 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 11 decks
8 The Ur-Dragon 11 decks
9 Infinite Guideline Station 10 decks
10 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 10 decks

Card text

Cascading Cataracts

Land

Indestructible {T}

: Add

: Add five mana in any combination of colors.

Dominaria United Commander (DMC) · Rare · Illustrated by Paul Scott Canavan

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.