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Exploding Barrel

· Artifact · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal (TMC)

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Times Brought

271

Decks Running

123

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

Exploding Barrel

Artifact

: Add one mana of any color. Put a pressure counter on this artifact. {8}

, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 20 damage to target creature. This ability costs {1}

less to activate for each pressure counter on this artifact. Activate only as a sorcery.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal (TMC) · Rare · Illustrated by Eliz Roxs

Final zone distribution

46 instances

2.2%

Library

47.8%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

272 brought · 114 players

Brought to game

272

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=27) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=152).

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 +2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -7.6pp to +13.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

18%

21%

15%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 14

On curve 39% (6 / 33 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.