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Parting Gust

· Instant · Bloomburrow (BLB)

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Times Brought

467

Decks Running

253

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

Parting Gust

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.) Exile target nontoken creature. If the gift wasn't promised, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Bloomburrow (BLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Nils Hamm

Final zone distribution

95 instances

1.1%

Library

3.2%

Battlefield

52.6%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 19 decks
2 Finneas, Ace Archer 13 decks
3 Ms. Bumbleflower 13 decks
4 Niko, Light of Hope 12 decks
5 Mabel, Heir to Cragflame 9 decks
6 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar 8 decks
7 Arthur, Marigold Knight 6 decks
8 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 6 decks
9 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor 6 decks
10 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

467 brought · 228 players

Brought to game

467

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=39) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=279).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=25).

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 -1.7pp; 95% confidence interval -10.2pp to +6.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=55

11%

22%

47%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 55 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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.