Live Play Data

Blazing Volley

· Sorcery · Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

203

Decks Running

103

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

20%

18%

45%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 40 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

203 brought · 96 players

Brought to game

203

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -16.1pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=36) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=130).

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 -1.7pp; 95% confidence interval -16.1pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

60 instances

5.0%

Library

5.0%

Battlefield

61.7%

Graveyard

11.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 52 decks
2 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 29 decks
3 Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot 4 decks
4 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 3 decks
5 Alania, Divergent Storm 2 decks
6 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight 2 decks
7 Aisha of Sparks and Smoke 1 decks
8 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape 1 decks
9 Hawkeye, Young Avenger 1 decks
10 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 1 decks

Card text

Blazing Volley

Sorcery

Blazing Volley deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control.

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO) · Common · Illustrated by Heonhwa

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.