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Maelstrom Wanderer

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

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Times Brought

682

Decks Running

321

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

158 instances

5.1%

Library

39.2%

Battlefield

26.6%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

683 brought · 318 players

Brought to game

683

Ever drawn

147

Reached battlefield

110

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +6.9pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=80) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=379).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=30).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval +6.9pp to +17.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=154

23%

56%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 81% (14 / 154 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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.