Live Play Data

Otterball Antics

· Sorcery · Bloomburrow (BLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

116

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21

10%

14%

38%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 24% (3 / 21 cast on T2)

The "good card" funnel

116 brought · 50 players

Brought to game

116

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=16) , vs 13% when it never left the library (n=76).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval -11.3pp to +30.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

30 instances

3.3%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

60.0%

Graveyard

16.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Otterball Antics

Sorcery

Create a 1/1 blue and red Otter creature token with prowess. If this spell was cast from anywhere other than your hand, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, a creature with prowess gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Flashback {3}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Bloomburrow (BLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Rhonda Libbey

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.