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Flusterstorm

· Instant · Iconic Masters (IMA)

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Times Brought

1002

Decks Running

491

In Decks

3554

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Flusterstorm

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

Final zone distribution

308 instances

4.2%

Library

2.3%

Battlefield

40.9%

Graveyard

14.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 33 decks
2 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 19 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 14 decks
4 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 13 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 12 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 12 decks
7 Tymna the Weaver 11 decks
8 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 10 decks
9 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 10 decks
10 Kenrith, the Returned King 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

1002 brought · 378 players

Brought to game

1002

Ever drawn

256

Reached battlefield

118

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=110) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=593).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=125) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +14.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=118

16%

25%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 3% (3 / 118 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

858 of 300 tracked games 99%

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.