Live Play Data

Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon

Land · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

924

Decks Running

345

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=181

12%

18%

10%

14%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

924 brought · 317 players

Brought to game

924

Ever drawn

225

Reached battlefield

181

Still on board at game end

146

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ -0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=170) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=578).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=40).

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 +6.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.7pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

244 instances

2.9%

Library

59.8%

Battlefield

18.4%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 133 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 41 decks
3 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 29 decks
4 Tiamat 18 decks
5 Rivaz of the Claw 11 decks
6 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 7 decks
7 Scion of the Ur-Dragon 7 decks
8 Smaug the Magnificent 7 decks
9 Atarka, World Render 6 decks
10 Smaug the Impenetrable 6 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.