Live Play Data

Monstrous Vortex

· Enchantment · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

940

Decks Running

351

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=180

16%

18%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 27% (29 / 180 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

943 brought · 327 players

Brought to game

943

Ever drawn

272

Reached battlefield

180

Still on board at game end

132

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ +11.5pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=169) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=562).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=83).

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 +19.4pp; 95% confidence interval +11.5pp to +27.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

294 instances

3.7%

Library

44.9%

Battlefield

19.0%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Monstrous Vortex

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, discover X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Deruchenko Alexander

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.