Live Play Data

Maelstrom Wanderer

· Legendary Creature — Elemental · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1064

Decks Running

425

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=257

12%

14%

60%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 83% (37 / 257 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

1065 brought · 410 players

Brought to game

1065

Ever drawn

276

Reached battlefield

199

Still on board at game end

107

Once cast, 54% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +6.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=175) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=652).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=69).

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 +13.4pp; 95% confidence interval +6.4pp to +20.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

304 instances

3.0%

Library

35.2%

Battlefield

30.3%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Maelstrom Wanderer

Legendary Creature — Elemental

Creatures you control have haste. Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)

7 / 5

Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Rare · Illustrated by Victor Adame Minguez

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.