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Delayed Blast Fireball

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

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Times Brought

596

Decks Running

325

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

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

Final zone distribution

129 instances

4.7%

Library

10.1%

Battlefield

43.4%

Graveyard

18.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

596 brought · 299 players

Brought to game

596

Ever drawn

118

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=59) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=336).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=34).

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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +13.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=73

18%

60%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 11% (3 / 73 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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.