Live Play Data

Blast-Furnace Hellkite

· Creature — Dragon · The Brothers' War Commander (BRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

596

Decks Running

227

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=90

14%

12%

60%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 90% (9 / 90 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

596 brought · 207 players

Brought to game

596

Ever drawn

143

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=81) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=391).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=48).

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 +14.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.0pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

164 instances

4.9%

Library

32.3%

Battlefield

28.0%

Graveyard

12.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Blast-Furnace Hellkite

Creature — Dragon

Artifact offering (You may cast this spell as though it had flash by sacrificing an artifact and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed artifact. Mana cost includes color.) Flying, double strike Creatures attacking your opponents have double strike.

5 / 5

The Brothers' War Commander (BRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Aldo Domínguez

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.