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Warping Wail

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

778

Decks Running

361

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

164 instances

2.4%

Library

3.7%

Battlefield

54.3%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 79 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 62 decks
3 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 24 decks
4 Molecule Man 22 decks
5 Omnath, Locus of the Void 20 decks
6 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 17 decks
7 Karn, Legacy Reforged 10 decks
8 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 9 decks
9 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 9 decks
10 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

778 brought · 334 players

Brought to game

778

Ever drawn

153

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=76) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=429).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=35).

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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=98

10%

12%

15%

37%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 14% (10 / 98 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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 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.