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Red Elemental Blast

· Instant · Masters 25 (A25)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

305

Decks Running

164

In Decks

1813

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

79 instances

3.8%

Library

5.1%

Battlefield

49.4%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 11 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 6 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 5 decks
4 Jaws, Relentless Predator 4 decks
5 Magar of the Magic Strings 4 decks
6 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 4 decks
7 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 4 decks
8 Mr. House, President and CEO 3 decks
9 Norin the Wary 3 decks
10 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

305 brought · 143 players

Brought to game

305

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=25) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=210).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=38) — 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 +21.6pp; 95% confidence interval +3.7pp to +39.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

10%

14%

55%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 3% (1 / 29 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

29 of 100 times cast 28%

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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.