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Blitzball

· Artifact · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

179

Decks Running

102

In Decks

598

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

51 instances

2.0%

Library

49.0%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

2.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary 10 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 7 decks
3 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 5 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
5 Toph, the First Metalbender 3 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 2 decks
7 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer 2 decks
8 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 2 decks
9 Kona, Rescue Beastie 2 decks
10 Lightning, Army of One 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

179 brought · 91 players

Brought to game

179

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.

≥ -4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=31) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=112).

Observed gap +12.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +28.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=34

21%

12%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 32% (7 / 34 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

34 of 100 times cast 34%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.