Live Play Data

Maelstrom Pulse

· Sorcery · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

348

Decks Running

182

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50

14%

56%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 6% (3 / 50 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

348 brought · 171 players

Brought to game

348

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -20.5pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=48) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=214).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=23).

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 -9.6pp; 95% confidence interval -20.5pp to +1.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

91 instances

6.6%

Library

1.1%

Battlefield

59.3%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 54 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 24 decks
3 Disa the Restless 19 decks
4 Ziatora, the Incinerator 4 decks
5 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 3 decks
6 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 3 decks
7 The Gitrog Monster 3 decks
8 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 2 decks
9 Chief of the Wilds 2 decks
10 Coram, the Undertaker 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.