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Crackle with Power

· Sorcery · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)

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Times Brought

487

Decks Running

231

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

109 instances

3.7%

Library

16.5%

Battlefield

47.7%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 30 decks
2 Smaug the Impenetrable 18 decks
3 Alania, Divergent Storm 10 decks
4 Magus Lucea Kane 10 decks
5 Smaug the Magnificent 9 decks
6 Magnus the Red 8 decks
7 The Scarlet Witch 7 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 6 decks
9 Galazeth Prismari 6 decks
10 Prismari, the Inspiration 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

489 brought · 212 players

Brought to game

489

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=54) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=289).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=25).

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 +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.7pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=66

20%

61%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.