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Crackle with Power

· Sorcery · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

468

Decks Running

245

In Decks

1430

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Crackle with Power

Sorcery

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) · Mythic · Illustrated by Micah Epstein

Final zone distribution

123 instances

2.4%

Library

17.1%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 21 decks
2 Smaug the Impenetrable 18 decks
3 Magus Lucea Kane 14 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 12 decks
5 Alania, Divergent Storm 10 decks
6 Ozai, the Phoenix King 7 decks
7 Magnus the Red 6 decks
8 Neheb, the Eternal 5 decks
9 Prosper, Tome-Bound 5 decks
10 Rowan, Scion of War 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

468 brought · 230 players

Brought to game

468

Ever drawn

106

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +14.6pp

Players who cast this card win 58% of the time (n=51) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=304).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=45) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +27.8pp; 95% confidence interval +14.6pp to +41.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=53

70%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 32%

53 of 100 times cast 53%

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

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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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.