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Bituminous Blast

· Instant · Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC)

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Times Brought

223

Decks Running

109

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

Bituminous Blast

Instant

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Bituminous Blast deals 4 damage to target creature.

Forgotten Realms Commander (AFC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

Final zone distribution

60 instances

5.0%

Library

8.3%

Battlefield

48.3%

Graveyard

1.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Abaddon the Despoiler 46 decks
2 Prosper, Tome-Bound 16 decks
3 Disa the Restless 10 decks
4 Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder 10 decks
5 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 8 decks
6 Ramos, Dragon Engine 2 decks
7 Codie, Vociferous Codex 1 decks
8 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 1 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 1 decks
10 Fire Lord Azula 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

223 brought · 107 players

Brought to game

223

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=23) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=125).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=20).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

10%

20%

53%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 11

On curve 30% (6 / 30 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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.