Live Play Data

Winding Way

· Sorcery · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

139

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

15%

22%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 22% (3 / 27 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

139 brought · 56 players

Brought to game

139

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -18.2pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=26) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=76).

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 -0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -18.2pp to +17.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

55 instances

1.8%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

65.5%

Graveyard

16.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Yuma, Proud Protector 21 decks
2 Six 4 decks
3 Winter, Cynical Opportunist 3 decks
4 Aerith, Last Ancient 2 decks
5 Kethis, the Hidden Hand 2 decks
6 Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant // Sasaya's Essence 2 decks
7 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 1 decks
8 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 1 decks
9 Aveline de Grandpré 1 decks
10 Borborygmos Enraged 1 decks

Card text

Winding Way

Sorcery

Choose creature or land. Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all cards of the chosen type revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Common · Illustrated by Adam Paquette

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.