Live Play Data

Warstorm Surge

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1791

Decks Running

893

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=241

15%

55%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 46% (40 / 241 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

1792 brought · 779 players

Brought to game

1792

Ever drawn

388

Reached battlefield

241

Still on board at game end

151

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=220) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1169).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=132).

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 +12.1pp; 95% confidence interval +5.8pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

439 instances

5.7%

Library

34.4%

Battlefield

23.7%

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 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.