Live Play Data

Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon

Land · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

506

Decks Running

207

Median Cast Turn

4.5

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=98

11%

16%

14%

10%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

506 brought · 195 players

Brought to game

506

Ever drawn

124

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=95) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=309).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 51% (n=25).

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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +17.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

135 instances

3.0%

Library

55.6%

Battlefield

22.2%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 80 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 25 decks
3 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 20 decks
4 Rivaz of the Claw 9 decks
5 Tiamat 8 decks
6 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 5 decks
7 Kaalia of the Vast 4 decks
8 Scion of the Ur-Dragon 4 decks
9 Smaug the Magnificent 4 decks
10 Acolyte of Bahamut 3 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.