Live Play Data

Cyclonic Rift

· Instant · Ravnica Remastered (RVR)

20%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

12651

Decks Running

5207

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=2127

11%

64%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

12652 brought · 2819 players

Brought to game

12652

Ever drawn

3302

Reached battlefield

2127

Still on board at game end

231

≥ +14.1pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=1972) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=7794).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=1055).

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 +16.3pp; 95% confidence interval +14.1pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

3713 instances

4.3%

Library

6.2%

Battlefield

53.2%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Cyclonic Rift

Instant

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Ravnica Remastered (RVR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Isis

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.