Live Play Data

Icy Blast

· Instant · Khans of Tarkir (KTK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

200

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

79%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 11

Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

200 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

200

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=25) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=133).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=18).

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 +16.8pp; 95% confidence interval -3.2pp to +36.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances

5.4%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

53.6%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hylda of the Icy Crown 22 decks
2 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned 20 decks
3 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 14 decks
4 Zaxara, the Exemplary 11 decks
5 Jorn, God of Winter // Kaldring, the Rimestaff 4 decks
6 Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice 3 decks
7 Arcanis the Omnipotent 2 decks
8 Isu the Abominable 2 decks
9 Ultros, Obnoxious Octopus 2 decks
10 Animar, Soul of Elements 1 decks

Card text

Icy Blast

Instant

Tap X target creatures. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

Khans of Tarkir (KTK) · Rare · Illustrated by Eric Deschamps

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.