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Reckless Impulse

· Sorcery · Star Trek (TRK)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

172

Decks Running

111

In Decks

805

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

39 instances

2.6%

Library

5.1%

Battlefield

59.0%

Graveyard

17.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Prosper, Tome-Bound 12 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 8 decks
3 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 4 decks
4 Fire Lord Zuko 4 decks
5 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 4 decks
6 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 4 decks
7 Krenko, Mob Boss 3 decks
8 Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival 3 decks
9 Rocco, Street Chef 3 decks
10 Urabrask // The Great Work 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

172 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

172

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=25) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=119).

Observed gap +11.9pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +30.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=26

12%

15%

19%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 15% (3 / 26 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

26 of 100 times cast 26%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.