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Winds of Change

· Sorcery · Masters Edition (ME1)

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Times Brought

146

Decks Running

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

Winds of Change

Sorcery

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

Masters Edition (ME1) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Justin Hampton

Final zone distribution

35 instances

5.7%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

57.1%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 21 decks
2 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 10 decks
3 Norin the Wary 4 decks
4 The Locust God 3 decks
5 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 3 decks
6 Kratos, God of War 2 decks
7 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 2 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 2 decks
9 Arjun, the Shifting Flame 1 decks
10 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

146 brought · 70 players

Brought to game

146

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.7pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=16) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=88).

Observed gap -1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -14.7pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21

10%

33%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 5% (1 / 21 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

21 of 100 times cast 21%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.