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Sulfuric Vortex

· Enchantment · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

168

Decks Running

105

In Decks

714

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

44 instances

59.1%

Battlefield

20.5%

Graveyard

11.4%

Exile

9.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 29 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 20 decks
3 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 11 decks
4 Mogis, God of Slaughter 5 decks
5 Norin the Wary 4 decks
6 The Lord of Pain 4 decks
7 Kratos, Stoic Father 3 decks
8 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 3 decks
9 Zo-Zu the Punisher 3 decks
10 Deadpool, Trading Card 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

169 brought · 102 players

Brought to game

169

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -12.4pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=32) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=111).

Observed gap +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -12.4pp to +22.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35

20%

11%

49%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 26% (7 / 35 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

35 of 100 times cast 35%

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.