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Blitzball

· Artifact · Final Fantasy (FIN)

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Times Brought

312

Decks Running

141

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

53 instances

54.7%

Battlefield

24.5%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

17.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jodah, the Unifier 6 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 5 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 4 decks
4 Cosmic Spider-Man 4 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 4 decks
6 Squall, SeeD Mercenary 4 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 4 decks
8 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 3 decks
9 Dr. Eggman 3 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

312 brought · 123 players

Brought to game

312

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ -12.1pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=27) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=179).

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 -2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -12.1pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

21%

18%

11%

13%

21%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 45% (7 / 38 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.