Live Play Data

Flusterstorm

· Instant · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1728

Decks Running

827

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=201

16%

21%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 2% (5 / 201 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

1728 brought · 605 players

Brought to game

1728

Ever drawn

426

Reached battlefield

201

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=183) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=1034).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=203).

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 +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

513 instances

4.9%

Library

3.9%

Battlefield

37.8%

Graveyard

17.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 56 decks
2 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 35 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 26 decks
4 Tymna the Weaver 20 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 19 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 18 decks
7 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 17 decks
8 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 16 decks
9 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 15 decks
10 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 14 decks

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

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.