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Live Play Data

Flusterstorm

{U} · Instant · Iconic Masters (IMA)
5%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
3343
Decks Running
1447
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
46%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=371
2%
T1
5%
T2
8%
T3
15%
T4
20%
T5
41%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 23
On curve 2% (9 / 371 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

3343 brought · 1020 players
Brought to game
3343
Ever drawn
801
Reached battlefield
371
Still on board at game end
35
≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=337) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=2024).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=377).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +12.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

969 instances
4.7%
Library
3.6%
Battlefield
38.1%
Graveyard
16.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Flusterstorm card

Flusterstorm

{U}
Instant
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Iconic Masters (IMA) · Rare · Illustrated by Erica Yang

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.