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Brain Freeze

{1} {U} · Instant · Vintage Masters (VMA)
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Times Brought
1057
Decks Running
531
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
Brain Freeze card

Brain Freeze

{1} {U}
Instant
Target player mills three cards. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Vintage Masters (VMA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Tim Hildebrandt

Final zone distribution

293 instances
3.1%
Library
13.0%
Battlefield
42.3%
Graveyard
14.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1057 brought · 476 players
Brought to game
1057
Ever drawn
256
Reached battlefield
136
Still on board at game end
38
≥ +7.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=110) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=538).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=95).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval +7.5pp to +17.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=136
1%
T1
2%
T2
8%
T3
14%
T4
17%
T5
43%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15
On curve 3% (3 / 136 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 53%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.