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Talisman of Impulse

· Artifact · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

1776

Decks Running

779

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Talisman of Impulse

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. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Mike Dringenberg

Final zone distribution

380 instances

2.1%

Library

68.7%

Battlefield

12.9%

Graveyard

3.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 111 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 95 decks
3 Atarka, World Render 58 decks
4 Ureni of the Unwritten 52 decks
5 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 37 decks
6 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 36 decks
7 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 20 decks
8 Aerid Konstrari 19 decks
9 Disa the Restless 17 decks
10 Eshki, Temur's Roar 17 decks

The "good card" funnel

1776 brought · 679 players

Brought to game

1776

Ever drawn

356

Reached battlefield

296

Still on board at game end

261

Once cast, 88% 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.

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=228) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1029).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=40).

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 -1.1pp to +5.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=296

22%

23%

10%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 16

On curve 45% (69 / 296 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 57%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.