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Warstorm Surge

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

673

Decks Running

371

In Decks

2916

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

169 instances

6.5%

Library

34.3%

Battlefield

21.9%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

674 brought · 332 players

Brought to game

674

Ever drawn

145

Reached battlefield

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.

≥ +1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=87) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=450).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=51) — 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 +11.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +21.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=90

12%

17%

57%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 51% (17 / 90 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

90 of 100 times cast 90%

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.