Live Play Data

Wave of Reckoning

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

277

Decks Running

152

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=32

69%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 19

On curve 3% (1 / 32 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

277 brought · 142 players

Brought to game

277

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -16.4pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=32) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=174).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=22).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -16.4pp to +17.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

67 instances

9.0%

Battlefield

55.2%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

26.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 57 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 33 decks
3 Arcades, the Strategist 19 decks
4 Felothar the Steadfast 13 decks
5 Betor, Kin to All 6 decks
6 Doran, Besieged by Time 6 decks
7 Doran, the Siege Tower 6 decks
8 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 4 decks
9 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 1 decks
10 Hercules, Olympian Hero 1 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.