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Reckless Impulse

· Sorcery · Star Trek (TRK)

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Times Brought

362

Decks Running

192

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

92 instances

3.3%

Battlefield

65.2%

Graveyard

15.2%

Exile

16.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 19 decks
2 Prosper, Tome-Bound 15 decks
3 Fire Lord Zuko 10 decks
4 Krenko, Mob Boss 10 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 7 decks
6 Gwen Stacy // Ghost-Spider 5 decks
7 Kratos, God of War 5 decks
8 Urabrask // The Great Work 5 decks
9 Toph, the First Metalbender 4 decks
10 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

364 brought · 185 players

Brought to game

364

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.5pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=47) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=190).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=16).

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 -1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -9.5pp to +6.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=60

18%

23%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 20

On curve 13% (4 / 60 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

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.