Live Play Data

Crackle with Power

· Sorcery · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1931

Decks Running

782

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=260

72%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

1937 brought · 681 players

Brought to game

1937

Ever drawn

467

Reached battlefield

260

Still on board at game end

108

≥ +15.3pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=233) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=1248).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=180).

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 +21.8pp; 95% confidence interval +15.3pp to +28.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

520 instances

3.8%

Library

20.8%

Battlefield

36.0%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 69 decks
2 Smaug the Impenetrable 54 decks
3 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 33 decks
4 Magus Lucea Kane 30 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 28 decks
6 Ozai, the Phoenix King 23 decks
7 Alania, Divergent Storm 20 decks
8 Magnus the Red 17 decks
9 Aerid Konstrari 16 decks
10 Smaug the Magnificent 16 decks

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

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.