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Xyris, the Writhing Storm

· Legendary Creature — Snake Leviathan · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

159

Decks Running

In Decks

480

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Xyris, the Writhing Storm

Legendary Creature — Snake Leviathan

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token. Whenever Xyris deals combat damage to a player, you and that player each draw that many cards.

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Dominaria United Commander (DMC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Filip Burburan

Final zone distribution

122 instances

1.6%

Library

63.1%

Battlefield

4.9%

Graveyard

2.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 38 decks
2 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 18 decks
3 Jared Carthalion 6 decks
4 Kenrith, the Returned King 4 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
6 Kalamax, the Stormsire 2 decks
7 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper 1 decks
8 Illuna, Apex of Wishes 1 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 1 decks
10 Loot, the Pathfinder 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

159 brought · 70 players

Brought to game

159

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -30.3pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=24) , vs 40% when it never left the library (n=76).

Observed gap -9.9pp; 95% confidence interval -30.3pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

29%

57%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 36% (8 / 28 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

28 of 100 times cast 28%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.