Live Play Data

River's Rebuke

· Sorcery · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

268

Decks Running

143

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=45

56%

T6-9

29%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 21

On curve 22% (3 / 45 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

268 brought · 126 players

Brought to game

268

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=41) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=149).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=28).

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 -12.3pp to +15.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

91 instances

2.2%

Library

5.5%

Battlefield

58.2%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 7 decks
2 Anhelo, the Painter 6 decks
3 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 5 decks
4 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 5 decks
5 Namor the Sub-Mariner 5 decks
6 Alania, Divergent Storm 4 decks
7 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 4 decks
8 Zevlor, Elturel Exile 4 decks
9 Codie, Vociferous Codex 3 decks
10 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 3 decks

Card text

River's Rebuke

Sorcery

Return all nonland permanents target player controls to their owner's hand.

Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.