Live Play Data

Whelming Wave

· Sorcery · Commander Legends (CMR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

703

Decks Running

276

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=107

62%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 7% (5 / 107 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

706 brought · 261 players

Brought to game

706

Ever drawn

184

Reached battlefield

107

Still on board at game end

≥ +9.6pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=99) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=428).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=69).

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 +19.1pp; 95% confidence interval +9.6pp to +28.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

211 instances

5.7%

Library

4.3%

Battlefield

52.1%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 45 decks
2 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 34 decks
3 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 22 decks
4 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 22 decks
5 Koma, Cosmos Serpent 19 decks
6 Omo, Queen of Vesuva 13 decks
7 Marvo, Deep Operative 10 decks
8 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 10 decks
9 Charix, the Raging Isle 8 decks
10 The Watcher in the Water 6 decks

Card text

Whelming Wave

Sorcery

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Commander Legends (CMR) · Rare · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.