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Live Play Data

Brainstorm

{U} · Instant · Reality Fracture Commander (FRC)
15%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
4874
Decks Running
2415
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
74%
Format

First-cast turn

n=1011
10%
T1
10%
T2
11%
T3
12%
T4
12%
T5
37%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 23
On curve 10% (104 / 1011 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

The "good card" funnel

4880 brought · 1641 players
Brought to game
4880
Ever drawn
1364
Reached battlefield
1011
Still on board at game end
43
≥ +6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=941) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=2896).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=329).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval +6.3pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1503 instances
3.9%
Library
2.9%
Battlefield
65.0%
Graveyard
12.0%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Brainstorm card

Brainstorm

{U}
Instant
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Reality Fracture Commander (FRC) · Common · Illustrated by Daarken

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.