Live Play Data

Roiling Vortex

· Enchantment · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

669

Decks Running

302

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=121

21%

12%

15%

12%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 31% (26 / 121 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

670 brought · 273 players

Brought to game

670

Ever drawn

149

Reached battlefield

121

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=111) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=450).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 11% (n=26).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

155 instances

4.5%

Library

51.6%

Battlefield

27.1%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 122 decks
2 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 28 decks
3 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 21 decks
4 Daredevil, Fearless Fighter 12 decks
5 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 11 decks
6 Mogis, God of Slaughter 9 decks
7 The Lord of Pain 7 decks
8 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 7 decks
9 Kratos, God of War 6 decks
10 Zo-Zu the Punisher 6 decks

Card text

Roiling Vortex

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to them. Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast that spell, this enchantment deals 5 damage to that player. {R}

: Your opponents can't gain life this turn.

Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Rare · Illustrated by Campbell White

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.