Live Play Data

Maelstrom Pulse

· Sorcery · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

461

Decks Running

231

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

14%

53%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 5% (3 / 64 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

461 brought · 218 players

Brought to game

461

Ever drawn

107

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.0pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=61) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=284).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=35).

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 -3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -14.0pp to +7.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

121 instances

6.6%

Library

1.7%

Battlefield

58.7%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 75 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 28 decks
3 Disa the Restless 25 decks
4 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 4 decks
5 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 4 decks
6 The Gitrog Monster 4 decks
7 Ziatora, the Incinerator 4 decks
8 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 3 decks
9 Tam, the Possibility 3 decks
10 Yargle and Multani 3 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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.