Live Play Data

Warstorm Surge

· Enchantment · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1159

Decks Running

578

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=152

14%

57%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 47% (28 / 152 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

1160 brought · 512 players

Brought to game

1160

Ever drawn

251

Reached battlefield

152

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=146) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=773).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=92).

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 +4.2pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

286 instances

7.0%

Library

33.9%

Battlefield

22.0%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Warstorm Surge

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

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.