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Warping Wail

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

335

Decks Running

171

In Decks

1249

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Warping Wail

Instant

(

represents colorless mana.) Choose one — • Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less. • Counter target sorcery spell. • Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jason Felix

Final zone distribution

81 instances

2.5%

Library

7.4%

Battlefield

45.7%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 36 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 28 decks
3 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 16 decks
4 Molecule Man 15 decks
5 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 7 decks
6 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 6 decks
7 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 6 decks
8 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 4 decks
9 Karn, Legacy Reforged 4 decks
10 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

335 brought · 164 players

Brought to game

335

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=42) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=222).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=25) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +27.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=48

48%

T6-9

31%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 4% (2 / 48 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

48 of 100 times cast 48%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.