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Maelstrom Pulse

· Sorcery · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

147

Decks Running

In Decks

785

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

35 instances

2.9%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

80.0%

Graveyard

14.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 31 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 13 decks
3 Disa the Restless 6 decks
4 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 2 decks
5 The Ur-Dragon 2 decks
6 Venom, Deadly Devourer 2 decks
7 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 1 decks
8 Baba Lysaga, Night Witch 1 decks
9 Bebop, Skull & Crossbones 1 decks
10 Chief of the Wilds 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

147 brought · 81 players

Brought to game

147

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -21.8pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=23) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=101).

Observed gap -4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -21.8pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=24

63%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 8% (2 / 24 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

24 of 100 times cast 24%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.