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Wild Magic Surge

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

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Times Brought

395

Decks Running

211

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Wild Magic Surge

Instant

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a permanent card that shares a card type with that permanent. They put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Dave Greco

Final zone distribution

65 instances

3.1%

Library

1.5%

Battlefield

67.7%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

395 brought · 203 players

Brought to game

395

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -21.8pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=32) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=227).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=15).

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 -13.3pp; 95% confidence interval -21.8pp to -4.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=42

17%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 7% (3 / 42 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.