Live Play Data

Whelming Wave

· Sorcery · Commander Legends (CMR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

513

Decks Running

220

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=77

66%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 8% (4 / 77 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

516 brought · 214 players

Brought to game

516

Ever drawn

128

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +10.3pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=72) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=315).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=45).

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 +21.7pp; 95% confidence interval +10.3pp to +33.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

152 instances

5.9%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

55.9%

Graveyard

3.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 37 decks
2 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 25 decks
3 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 21 decks
4 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 16 decks
5 Koma, Cosmos Serpent 15 decks
6 Omo, Queen of Vesuva 11 decks
7 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 8 decks
8 Charix, the Raging Isle 7 decks
9 Marvo, Deep Operative 7 decks
10 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.