Live Play Data

Daring Waverider

· Creature — Otter Wizard · Bloomburrow (BLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

161

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=22

73%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 27% (4 / 22 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

161 brought · 53 players

Brought to game

161

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=21) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=99).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=20).

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 +22.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.3pp to +42.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

49 instances

4.1%

Library

20.4%

Battlefield

34.7%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Daring Waverider

Creature — Otter Wizard

When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

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Bloomburrow (BLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Wisnu Tan

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.