Live Play Data

Maelstrom Nexus

· Enchantment · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

207

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

12%

24%

53%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 38% (8 / 34 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

207 brought · 86 players

Brought to game

207

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=29) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=124).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=17).

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 +13.3pp; 95% confidence interval -3.0pp to +29.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

61 instances

3.3%

Library

41.0%

Battlefield

13.1%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jared Carthalion 14 decks
2 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 13 decks
3 Ramos, Dragon Engine 10 decks
4 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 7 decks
5 Infinite Guideline Station 6 decks
6 Omnath, Locus of All 6 decks
7 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 5 decks
8 Jegantha, the Wellspring 3 decks
9 Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile 3 decks
10 Kenrith, the Returned King 3 decks

Card text

Maelstrom Nexus

Enchantment

The first spell you cast each turn has cascade. (When you cast your first spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Dominaria United Commander (DMC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Steven Belledin

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.