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Blossoming Defense

· Instant · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

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Times Brought

526

Decks Running

274

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

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

Final zone distribution

96 instances

2.1%

Library

6.3%

Battlefield

44.8%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atarka, World Render 56 decks
2 Tifa Lockhart 21 decks
3 Shroofus Sproutsire 16 decks
4 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 11 decks
5 High Perfect Morcant 7 decks
6 Legolas, Master Archer 7 decks
7 Sergeant John Benton 7 decks
8 Wolverine, Best There Is 6 decks
9 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 5 decks
10 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

527 brought · 261 players

Brought to game

527

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=37) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=300).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=27).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=45

13%

58%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 27

On curve 0% (0 / 45 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 16%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.