Live Play Data

Maelstrom Nexus

· Enchantment · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

422

Decks Running

172

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=63

27%

54%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 38% (17 / 63 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

422 brought · 157 players

Brought to game

422

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ -3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=57) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=273).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (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 +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval -3.5pp to +19.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

105 instances

1.9%

Library

45.7%

Battlefield

17.1%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jared Carthalion 21 decks
2 Ramos, Dragon Engine 20 decks
3 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 19 decks
4 Omnath, Locus of All 16 decks
5 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 12 decks
6 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 11 decks
7 Infinite Guideline Station 8 decks
8 Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile 6 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 6 decks
10 Progenitus 5 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 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.