Live Play Data

Xyris, the Writhing Storm

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

165

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=215

17%

30%

22%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 73% (48 / 215 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

165 brought · 73 players

Brought to game

165

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ -10.3pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=36) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=77).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=28).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -10.3pp to +24.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

73 instances

2.7%

Library

35.6%

Battlefield

19.2%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 38 decks
2 Jared Carthalion 14 decks
3 Kenrith, the Returned King 5 decks
4 Kalamax, the Stormsire 4 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
6 Illuna, Apex of Wishes 2 decks
7 Princess Twilight Sparkle 2 decks
8 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks
9 Cecily, Haunted Mage 1 decks
10 Child of Alara 1 decks

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

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.