Live Play Data

Red Elemental Blast

· Instant · Masters 25 (A25)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1914

Decks Running

880

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=182

12%

17%

16%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 3% (6 / 182 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

1914 brought · 661 players

Brought to game

1914

Ever drawn

388

Reached battlefield

182

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=164) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=1225).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=185).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.8pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

445 instances

3.8%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

49.2%

Graveyard

12.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 62 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 32 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 31 decks
4 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 25 decks
5 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 21 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 21 decks
7 Kaalia of the Vast 18 decks
8 Tymna the Weaver 18 decks
9 Kratos, God of War 17 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 15 decks

Card text

Red Elemental Blast

Instant

Choose one — • Counter target blue spell. • Destroy target blue permanent.

Masters 25 (A25) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Izzy

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.