Live Play Data

Balmor, Battlemage Captain

· Legendary Creature — Bird Wizard · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

597

Decks Running

288

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=134

20%

49%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 21% (27 / 134 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

597 brought · 272 players

Brought to game

597

Ever drawn

179

Reached battlefield

128

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ +1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=121) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=355).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=45).

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 +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.5pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

190 instances

3.7%

Library

35.3%

Battlefield

36.8%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Balmor, Battlemage Captain

Legendary Creature — Bird Wizard

Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.

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Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Bram Sels

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.