Live Play Data

Chain Reaction

· Sorcery · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4296

Decks Running

1889

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=506

10%

61%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 6% (26 / 506 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

4299 brought · 1559 players

Brought to game

4299

Ever drawn

944

Reached battlefield

506

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=489) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=3009).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=415).

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 +0.9pp to +8.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1036 instances

3.1%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

50.9%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 210 decks
2 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 132 decks
3 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 112 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 106 decks
5 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 79 decks
6 Atarka, World Render 64 decks
7 Kilo, Apogee Mind 57 decks
8 Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary 45 decks
9 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 41 decks
10 Krenko, Mob Boss 36 decks

Card text

Chain Reaction

Sorcery

Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Leon Tukker

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.