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Brightstone Ritual

· Instant · Onslaught (ONS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

229

Decks Running

141

In Decks

921

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

47 instances

2.1%

Library

4.3%

Battlefield

63.8%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 72 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 29 decks
3 The Great Goblin 8 decks
4 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 5 decks
5 Mishra, Claimed by Gix 3 decks
6 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 2 decks
7 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 2 decks
8 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 2 decks
9 Krark, the Thumbless 2 decks
10 Purphoros, God of the Forge 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

229 brought · 129 players

Brought to game

229

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -18.1pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=30) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=160).

Observed gap -2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -18.1pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

13%

63%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 3% (1 / 32 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.