Live Play Data

Torrential Gearhulk

· Artifact Creature — Construct · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

568

Decks Running

279

Median Cast Turn

9.0

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=62

52%

T6-9

39%

T10+

Median 9.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 17

On curve 18% (5 / 62 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

568 brought · 267 players

Brought to game

568

Ever drawn

124

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=54) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=372).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=55).

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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.9pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

137 instances

3.6%

Library

23.4%

Battlefield

27.7%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 122 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 41 decks
3 Dr. Eggman 24 decks
4 Ms. Bumbleflower 9 decks
5 Orvar, the All-Form 9 decks
6 Alisaie Leveilleur 4 decks
7 Baral, Chief of Compliance 4 decks
8 Alphinaud Leveilleur 3 decks
9 Chromium, the Mutable 3 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks

Card text

Torrential Gearhulk

Artifact Creature — Construct

Flash When this creature enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

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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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.