Live Play Data

Maelstrom Pulse

· Sorcery · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

248

Decks Running

142

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

56%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 7% (3 / 43 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

248 brought · 135 players

Brought to game

248

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -18.0pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=42) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=152).

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 -5.7pp; 95% confidence interval -18.0pp to +6.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

66 instances

4.5%

Library

1.5%

Battlefield

66.7%

Graveyard

3.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 45 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 18 decks
3 Disa the Restless 16 decks
4 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 3 decks
5 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 2 decks
6 Coram, the Undertaker 2 decks
7 Indominus Rex, Alpha 2 decks
8 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 2 decks
9 The Gitrog Monster 2 decks
10 The Ur-Dragon 2 decks

Card text

Maelstrom Pulse

Sorcery

Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

Innistrad Remastered (INR) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Rallis

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.