Live Play Data

Encroaching Dragonstorm

· Enchantment · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

377

Decks Running

179

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=55

20%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 35% (11 / 55 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

380 brought · 177 players

Brought to game

380

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -7.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=51) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=256).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.3pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

91 instances

3.3%

Library

23.1%

Battlefield

19.8%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ureni of the Unwritten 58 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 22 decks
3 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 12 decks
4 Eshki, Temur's Roar 11 decks
5 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 11 decks
6 Ruby, Daring Tracker 10 decks
7 Tiamat 10 decks
8 Indominus Rex, Alpha 4 decks
9 Radha, Heir to Keld 4 decks
10 Ramos, Dragon Engine 4 decks

Card text

Encroaching Dragonstorm

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When a Dragon you control enters, return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Marco Gorlei

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.