Live Play Data

Blossoming Defense

· Instant · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

602

Decks Running

245

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=57

11%

14%

60%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 57 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

The "good card" funnel

602 brought · 227 players

Brought to game

602

Ever drawn

126

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=53) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=398).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=61).

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 +14.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +27.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

148 instances

6.8%

Library

6.8%

Battlefield

43.2%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.