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Arcane Bombardment

· Enchantment · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

226

Decks Running

133

In Decks

898

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Arcane Bombardment

Enchantment

Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, exile an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard. Then copy each card exiled with this enchantment. You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Marta Nael

Final zone distribution

69 instances

11.6%

Library

26.1%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

1.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lorehold, the Historian 14 decks
2 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 9 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 9 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 6 decks
5 Stella Lee, Wild Card 6 decks
6 Alania, Divergent Storm 5 decks
7 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 4 decks
8 Bria, Riptide Rogue 4 decks
9 Kalamax, the Stormsire 4 decks
10 Velomachus Lorehold 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

227 brought · 126 players

Brought to game

227

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ +13.3pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=28) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=137).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=32) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +29.9pp; 95% confidence interval +13.3pp to +46.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

15%

58%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 58% (10 / 33 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

33 of 100 times cast 33%

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.