Live Play Data

Flusterstorm

· Instant · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2526

Decks Running

1157

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=279

15%

21%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 23

On curve 3% (8 / 279 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

2526 brought · 820 players

Brought to game

2526

Ever drawn

598

Reached battlefield

279

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=253) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1522).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=282).

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 +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +11.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

725 instances

5.2%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

38.8%

Graveyard

16.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 82 decks
2 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 48 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 36 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 28 decks
5 Tymna the Weaver 27 decks
6 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 27 decks
7 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 25 decks
8 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 23 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 21 decks
10 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 19 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.