Live Play Data

Sulfuric Vortex

· Enchantment · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

758

Decks Running

333

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=121

21%

15%

17%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 30% (26 / 121 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

759 brought · 306 players

Brought to game

759

Ever drawn

170

Reached battlefield

121

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ -5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=115) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=504).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=42).

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 +2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.8pp to +10.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

188 instances

3.2%

Library

43.1%

Battlefield

24.5%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 87 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 63 decks
3 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 33 decks
4 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 14 decks
5 Mogis, God of Slaughter 13 decks
6 Norin the Wary 13 decks
7 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus 11 decks
8 Zo-Zu the Punisher 10 decks
9 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash 7 decks
10 Krenko, Mob Boss 5 decks

Card text

Sulfuric Vortex

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player. If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.

Dominaria Remastered (DMR) · Rare · Illustrated by Greg Staples

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.