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Cyclonic Rift

· Instant · Ravnica Remastered (RVR)

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Times Brought

2302

Decks Running

1160

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

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

Final zone distribution

574 instances

3.1%

Library

8.0%

Battlefield

54.4%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 36 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 32 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 24 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 20 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 19 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 17 decks
7 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 16 decks
8 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 16 decks
9 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 15 decks
10 Urza, Lord High Artificer 15 decks

The "good card" funnel

2303 brought · 765 players

Brought to game

2303

Ever drawn

520

Reached battlefield

343

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=287) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1365).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=155) — 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 +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.7pp to +8.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=343

11%

13%

54%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 25%

2607 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.