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Live Play Data

Roiling Vortex

{1} {R} · Enchantment · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
862
Decks Running
375
Median Cast Turn
4.0
Drawn → Played
79%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=148
8%
T1
20%
T2
15%
T3
16%
T4
12%
T5
24%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 19
On curve 28% (29 / 148 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

863 brought · 336 players
Brought to game
863
Ever drawn
187
Reached battlefield
148
Still on board at game end
97

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.

≥ -1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=137) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=576).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=35).

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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +13.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

202 instances
3.5%
Library
48.0%
Battlefield
25.2%
Graveyard
6.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Roiling Vortex card

Roiling Vortex

{1} {R}
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 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.