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Maelstrom Pulse

· Sorcery · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

120

Decks Running

In Decks

610

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

26 instances

3.8%

Battlefield

84.6%

Graveyard

11.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 23 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 11 decks
3 Disa the Restless 6 decks
4 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 2 decks
5 The Ur-Dragon 2 decks
6 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 1 decks
7 Baba Lysaga, Night Witch 1 decks
8 Child of Alara 1 decks
9 Coram, the Undertaker 1 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

120 brought · 65 players

Brought to game

120

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -24.0pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=17) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=88).

Observed gap -2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -24.0pp to +19.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

18 of 100 times cast 18%

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

Frequently Asked

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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.