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Into the Flood Maw

· Instant · Bloomburrow (BLB)

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Times Brought

332

Decks Running

199

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Into the Flood Maw

Instant

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Bloomburrow (BLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Danny Schwartz

Final zone distribution

107 instances

4.7%

Library

1.9%

Battlefield

55.1%

Graveyard

11.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 25 decks
2 Marneus Calgar 9 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 8 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 6 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 6 decks
6 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 5 decks
7 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 5 decks
8 Kraum, Ludevic's Opus 5 decks
9 Alania, Divergent Storm 4 decks
10 Clement, the Worrywort 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

332 brought · 188 players

Brought to game

332

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=52) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=174).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=31) — 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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=59

19%

20%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 2% (1 / 59 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

59 of 100 times cast 59%

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.