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Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave

· Creature — Serpent Dragon // Instant — Adventure · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

266

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Sword Coast Serpent

Creature — Serpent Dragon

This creature can't be blocked as long as you've cast a noncreature spell this turn.

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Capsizing Wave

Instant — Adventure

Return target creature to its owner's hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Common · Illustrated by Caio Monteiro

Final zone distribution

32 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 8 decks
2 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 5 decks
3 Gorion, Wise Mentor 4 decks
4 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius 2 decks
5 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty 2 decks
6 Lozhan, Dragons' Legacy 2 decks
7 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time 2 decks
8 Sivitri, Dragon Master 2 decks
9 Acolyte of Bahamut 1 decks
10 Alela, Artful Provocateur 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

83 brought · 50 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=16) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=47).

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 +11.1pp; 95% confidence interval -13.0pp to +35.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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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.