Live Play Data

Stormsurge Kraken

· Creature — Kraken · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

196

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

14%

16%

46%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 38% (6 / 37 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

196 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

196

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=29) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=106).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=30).

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 +18.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +37.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

70 instances

7.1%

Library

30.0%

Battlefield

25.7%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 17 decks
2 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 17 decks
3 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 14 decks
4 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 8 decks
5 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 7 decks
6 Marvo, Deep Operative 4 decks
7 Orvar, the All-Form 3 decks
8 Teferi, Temporal Archmage 3 decks
9 The Watcher in the Water 2 decks
10 Brokkos, Apex of Forever 1 decks

Card text

Stormsurge Kraken

Creature — Kraken

Hexproof Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

5 / 5

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

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.