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Live Play Data

Delayed Blast Fireball

· Instant · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1467

Decks Running

570

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=207

16%

55%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 8% (9 / 207 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1467 brought · 494 players

Brought to game

1467

Ever drawn

375

Reached battlefield

207

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=194) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=915).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=147).

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 +12.2pp; 95% confidence interval +4.8pp to +19.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

433 instances

3.9%

Library

7.6%

Battlefield

46.4%

Graveyard

22.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Zuko 29 decks
2 Prosper, Tome-Bound 26 decks
3 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 23 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 22 decks
5 Flubs, the Fool 16 decks
6 Abaddon the Despoiler 14 decks
7 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 14 decks
8 Rocco, Street Chef 14 decks
9 Krenko, Mob Boss 12 decks
10 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 11 decks

Card text

Delayed Blast Fireball

Instant

Delayed Blast Fireball deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If this spell was cast from exile, it deals 5 damage to each opponent and each creature they control instead. Foretell {4}

(During your turn, you may pay {2}

and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Andreas Zafiratos

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.