Live Play Data

Warping Wail

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1427

Decks Running

628

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=186

10%

52%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 8% (14 / 186 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

1427 brought · 556 players

Brought to game

1427

Ever drawn

327

Reached battlefield

186

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=162) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=908).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=115).

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 +12.0pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +19.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

361 instances

6.1%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

44.0%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 119 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 92 decks
3 Omnath, Locus of the Void 50 decks
4 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 37 decks
5 Molecule Man 35 decks
6 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 23 decks
7 Karn, Legacy Reforged 19 decks
8 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 18 decks
9 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 17 decks
10 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 14 decks

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

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.