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Live Play Data

Chain Lightning

{R} · Sorcery · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
214
Decks Running
107
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
65%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33
0%
T1
3%
T2
6%
T3
15%
T4
15%
T5
48%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13
On curve 0% (0 / 33 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

215 brought · 98 players
Brought to game
215
Ever drawn
51
Reached battlefield
33
Still on board at game end
12
≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=30) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=139).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=17).

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 +20.8pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +38.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

58 instances
1.7%
Library
20.7%
Battlefield
48.3%
Graveyard
8.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Chain Lightning card

Chain Lightning

{R}
Sorcery
Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to any target. Then that player or that permanent's controller may pay {R}{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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.