Live Play Data

Will of the Mardu

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

491

Decks Running

254

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=67

10%

16%

63%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 3% (1 / 67 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

491 brought · 232 players

Brought to game

491

Ever drawn

108

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=57) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=316).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=35).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -6.2pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

121 instances

3.3%

Library

7.4%

Battlefield

55.4%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zurgo Stormrender 52 decks
2 Silverquill, the Disputant 25 decks
3 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 20 decks
4 Baylen, the Haymaker 16 decks
5 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 16 decks
6 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 13 decks
7 Zurgo, Thunder's Decree 11 decks
8 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 5 decks
9 Neriv, Crackling Vanguard 5 decks
10 Belladonna Took 4 decks

Card text

Will of the Mardu

Instant

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Create a number of 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens equal to the number of creatures target player controls. • Will of the Mardu deals damage to target creature equal to the number of creatures you control.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Tuan Duong Chu

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 seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.