Live Play Data

Chain Lightning

· Sorcery · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

332

Decks Running

148

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=44

16%

18%

45%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 44 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

333 brought · 137 players

Brought to game

333

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=42) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=219).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=27).

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 +21.4pp; 95% confidence interval +6.6pp to +36.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

83 instances

2.4%

Library

18.1%

Battlefield

49.4%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Smaug the Impenetrable 88 decks
2 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 5 decks
3 Massimo, the Magician 3 decks
4 Spider-Man 2099 3 decks
5 Aegar, the Freezing Flame 2 decks
6 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 2 decks
7 Red Hulk 2 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 2 decks
9 Alania, Divergent Storm 1 decks
10 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 1 decks

Card text

Chain Lightning

Sorcery

Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to any target. Then that player or that permanent's controller may pay {R}

. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Dominaria Remastered (DMR) · Common · Illustrated by Christopher Moeller

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.