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Roiling Vortex

· Enchantment · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

226

Decks Running

124

In Decks

785

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

43 instances

2.3%

Library

58.1%

Battlefield

30.2%

Graveyard

9.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 48 decks
2 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 13 decks
3 Daredevil, Fearless Fighter 7 decks
4 The Lord of Pain 6 decks
5 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 4 decks
6 Kratos, God of War 4 decks
7 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 4 decks
8 Norin the Wary 3 decks
9 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 3 decks
10 Tokka & Rahzar, Terrible Twos 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

227 brought · 119 players

Brought to game

227

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -11.8pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=33) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=161).

Observed gap +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -11.8pp to +20.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

11%

19%

11%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.5 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 31% (7 / 36 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

36 of 100 times cast 36%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.