Live Play Data

Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon

Land · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1245

Decks Running

453

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=226

12%

14%

16%

12%

13%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

1245 brought · 402 players

Brought to game

1245

Ever drawn

278

Reached battlefield

226

Still on board at game end

181

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=210) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=816).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=46).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +15.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

304 instances

2.6%

Library

59.5%

Battlefield

18.8%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 167 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 57 decks
3 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 38 decks
4 Tiamat 20 decks
5 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 16 decks
6 Rivaz of the Claw 14 decks
7 Atarka, World Render 11 decks
8 Smaug the Magnificent 10 decks
9 Scion of the Ur-Dragon 8 decks
10 Ganax, Astral Hunter 7 decks

Card text

Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon

Land

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Dragon spell or an Omen spell. {4}

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Dragon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Rare · Illustrated by Carlos Palma Cruchaga

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.