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Red Elemental Blast

{R} · Instant · Masters 25 (A25)
2%
Decklist Inclusion
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Times Brought
623
Decks Running
344
In Decks
2908
Decklist Inclusion
2%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Red Elemental Blast card

Red Elemental Blast

{R}
Instant
Choose one — • Counter target blue spell. • Destroy target blue permanent.
Masters 25 (A25) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Izzy

Final zone distribution

161 instances
3.7%
Library
3.7%
Battlefield
54.0%
Graveyard
9.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

623 brought · 290 players
Brought to game
623
Ever drawn
141
Reached battlefield
69
Still on board at game end
6
≥ -0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=63) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=391).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=62) — 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 +10.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.4pp to +22.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=69
1%
T1
4%
T2
10%
T3
14%
T4
20%
T5
46%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 10
On curve 1% (1 / 69 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 34%
69 of 100 times cast 69%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.