Live Play Data

Blossoming Defense

· Instant · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

350

Decks Running

151

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

44%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

61%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 28 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 7%

The "good card" funnel

350 brought · 144 players

Brought to game

350

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=27) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=234).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=31).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +30.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

84 instances

8.3%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

48.8%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atarka, World Render 18 decks
2 Tifa Lockhart 10 decks
3 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 7 decks
4 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 6 decks
5 Shroofus Sproutsire 6 decks
6 Wolverine, Best There Is 6 decks
7 Ms. Bumbleflower 4 decks
8 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 3 decks
9 High Perfect Morcant 3 decks
10 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 3 decks

Card text

Blossoming Defense

Instant

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Eelis Kyttanen

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.