Live Play Data

Blasting Station

· Artifact · Fifth Dawn (5DN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

257

Decks Running

121

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=42

14%

17%

12%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 21% (6 / 42 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

257 brought · 115 players

Brought to game

257

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=41) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=175).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=15).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval -5.2pp to +22.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

62 instances

3.2%

Library

50.0%

Battlefield

8.1%

Graveyard

14.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 18 decks
2 Darien, King of Kjeldor 15 decks
3 Celes, Rune Knight 6 decks
4 Imotekh the Stormlord 5 decks
5 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 5 decks
6 Gisa, the Hellraiser 4 decks
7 Ygra, Eater of All 3 decks
8 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 2 decks
9 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight 2 decks
10 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 2 decks

Card text

Blasting Station

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a creature enters, you may untap this artifact.

Fifth Dawn (5DN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Stephen Tappin

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.