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Red Elemental Blast

· Instant · Masters 25 (A25)

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Times Brought

611

Decks Running

296

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

Red Elemental Blast

Instant

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

Masters 25 (A25) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Izzy

Final zone distribution

113 instances

2.7%

Library

4.4%

Battlefield

45.1%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 21 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 17 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 17 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 10 decks
5 Edgar Markov 9 decks
6 Najeela, the Blade-Blossom 9 decks
7 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 9 decks
8 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 8 decks
9 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 8 decks
10 Kaalia of the Vast 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

611 brought · 248 players

Brought to game

611

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=38) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=370).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=43).

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 +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=47

23%

19%

21%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 9

On curve 4% (2 / 47 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.