Live Play Data

Maelstrom Archangel

· Creature — Angel · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

265

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

12%

19%

56%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 35% (8 / 43 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

266 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

266

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=39) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=153).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 9% (n=24).

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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -7.2pp to +19.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

77 instances

2.6%

Library

31.2%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jared Carthalion 19 decks
2 Seluma, Light of Aysen 13 decks
3 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 11 decks
4 Omnath, Locus of All 11 decks
5 Ramos, Dragon Engine 11 decks
6 Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile 5 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 4 decks
8 Infinite Guideline Station 4 decks
9 Jegantha, the Wellspring 4 decks
10 Child of Alara 3 decks

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

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.