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Maelstrom Archangel

· Creature — Angel · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

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Times Brought

149

Decks Running

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

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

33 instances

27.3%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

30.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jared Carthalion 17 decks
2 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 13 decks
3 Omnath, Locus of All 12 decks
4 Ramos, Dragon Engine 9 decks
5 Seluma, Light of Aysen 9 decks
6 Progenitus 5 decks
7 Infinite Guideline Station 4 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
9 Rainbow Dash 3 decks
10 Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

149 brought · 88 players

Brought to game

149

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -9.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=17) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=84).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -9.1pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21

19%

62%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 24% (4 / 21 cast on T5)

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.