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Brainstorm

· Instant · Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal (TLE)

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Times Brought

2092

Decks Running

1087

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

Brainstorm

Instant

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal (TLE) · Common · Illustrated by Arthur Yuan

Final zone distribution

559 instances

2.1%

Library

3.8%

Battlefield

68.2%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 67 decks
2 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 41 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 21 decks
4 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 18 decks
5 Abaddon the Despoiler 17 decks
6 The Astonishing Ant-Man 16 decks
7 Lord of the Nazgûl 14 decks
8 The Ur-Dragon 14 decks
9 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 14 decks
10 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 13 decks

The "good card" funnel

2093 brought · 833 players

Brought to game

2093

Ever drawn

515

Reached battlefield

396

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=331) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1210).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=93) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.5pp to +7.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=396

13%

11%

12%

13%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 13% (50 / 396 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 55%

2865 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.