Live Play Data

Winds of Abandon

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1260

Decks Running

566

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=162

12%

67%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

1260 brought · 490 players

Brought to game

1260

Ever drawn

267

Reached battlefield

162

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=154) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=853).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=93).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +3.5pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

297 instances

5.7%

Library

1.3%

Battlefield

58.9%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 38 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 26 decks
3 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 17 decks
4 Heliod, Sun-Crowned 13 decks
5 Queen Marchesa 13 decks
6 Whtz, the Bibliophile 13 decks
7 Gluntch, the Bestower 12 decks
8 Quintorius, History Chaser 9 decks
9 Ketramose, the New Dawn 8 decks
10 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 7 decks

Card text

Winds of Abandon

Sorcery

Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Overload {4}

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Modern Horizons (MH1) · Rare · Illustrated by Noah Bradley

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.