Live Play Data

Reckless Impulse

· Sorcery · Star Trek (TRK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

621

Decks Running

300

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=92

10%

12%

22%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 9% (6 / 92 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

621 brought · 278 players

Brought to game

621

Ever drawn

132

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=82) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=413).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=33).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +14.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

149 instances

2.0%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

63.8%

Graveyard

13.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Prosper, Tome-Bound 30 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 15 decks
3 Fire Lord Zuko 12 decks
4 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 11 decks
5 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 10 decks
6 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 8 decks
7 Urabrask // The Great Work 7 decks
8 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 6 decks
9 Krenko, Mob Boss 6 decks
10 Norin the Wary 6 decks

Card text

Reckless Impulse

Sorcery

Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Star Trek (TRK) · Common · Illustrated by Simon Dominic

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.