Live Play Data

Wave of Reckoning

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

454

Decks Running

237

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=60

72%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 8% (4 / 60 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

454 brought · 219 players

Brought to game

454

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=57) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=291).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 44% (n=31).

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 +7.1pp; 95% confidence interval -5.9pp to +20.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

113 instances

0.9%

Library

6.2%

Battlefield

61.1%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 88 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 51 decks
3 Arcades, the Strategist 32 decks
4 Felothar the Steadfast 20 decks
5 Doran, Besieged by Time 9 decks
6 Doran, the Siege Tower 8 decks
7 Betor, Kin to All 7 decks
8 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 6 decks
9 Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant // Rune-Tail's Essence 2 decks
10 Tymna the Weaver 2 decks

Card text

Wave of Reckoning

Sorcery

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.