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Delayed Blast Fireball

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

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Times Brought

237

Decks Running

142

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

52 instances

1.9%

Library

9.6%

Battlefield

40.4%

Graveyard

21.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 9 decks
2 Fire Lord Zuko 8 decks
3 Prosper, Tome-Bound 7 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 5 decks
5 Abaddon the Despoiler 4 decks
6 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 4 decks
7 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 4 decks
8 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 3 decks
9 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 3 decks
10 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

237 brought · 132 players

Brought to game

237

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=24) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=150).

Observed gap +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -4.6pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

18%

57%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 18% (1 / 28 cast on T3)

28 of 100 times cast 28%

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.