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Maelstrom Archangel

· Creature — Angel · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

103

Decks Running

In Decks

276

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Maelstrom Archangel

Creature — Angel

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast a spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.

5 / 5

Dominaria United Commander (DMC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Cyril Van Der Haegen

Final zone distribution

31 instances

3.2%

Library

32.3%

Battlefield

35.5%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jared Carthalion 8 decks
2 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 5 decks
3 Ramos, Dragon Engine 5 decks
4 Omnath, Locus of All 4 decks
5 Child of Alara 3 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
7 Infinite Guideline Station 3 decks
8 Seluma, Light of Aysen 2 decks
9 Cecily, Haunted Mage 1 decks
10 Codie, Vociferous Codex 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

104 brought · 41 players

Brought to game

104

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -24.0pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=19) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=49).

Observed gap -4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -24.0pp to +15.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

15%

65%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 35% (3 / 20 cast on T5)

20 of 100 times cast 20%

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.