Live Play Data

Blitzball

· Artifact · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

545

Decks Running

249

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=95

23%

13%

14%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 34% (22 / 95 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

545 brought · 208 players

Brought to game

545

Ever drawn

128

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=83) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=359).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=30).

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 +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +19.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

138 instances

1.4%

Library

46.4%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary 20 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 12 decks
3 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 10 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 5 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 5 decks
6 Toph, the First Metalbender 5 decks
7 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer 4 decks
8 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 4 decks
9 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 4 decks
10 Vivi Ornitier 4 decks

Card text

Blitzball

Artifact

: Add one mana of any color. GOOOOAAAALLL! — {T}

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards. Activate only if an opponent was dealt combat damage by a legendary creature this turn.

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Common · Illustrated by Gas1

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.