Live Play Data

Roiling Vortex

· Enchantment · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

338

Decks Running

176

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

85%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=58

26%

12%

16%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 33% (15 / 58 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

339 brought · 168 players

Brought to game

339

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.

≥ -7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=53) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=233).

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 +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -7.8pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

74 instances

5.4%

Library

54.1%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

9.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 70 decks
2 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 18 decks
3 Daredevil, Fearless Fighter 10 decks
4 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 8 decks
5 The Lord of Pain 7 decks
6 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 6 decks
7 Kratos, God of War 5 decks
8 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 5 decks
9 Mogis, God of Slaughter 4 decks
10 Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence 3 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.