Live Play Data

Starstorm

· Instant · Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

928

Decks Running

441

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=100

61%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

928 brought · 415 players

Brought to game

928

Ever drawn

194

Reached battlefield

100

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.3pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=86) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=589).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=75).

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 -5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -13.3pp to +2.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

216 instances

3.2%

Library

3.7%

Battlefield

54.2%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 133 decks
2 The Swarmlord 83 decks
3 Magus Lucea Kane 26 decks
4 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 18 decks
5 Smaug the Impenetrable 18 decks
6 Kalamax, the Stormsire 11 decks
7 Sonic the Hedgehog 9 decks
8 Gavi, Nest Warden 8 decks
9 Daretti, Scrap Savant 6 decks
10 Firesong and Sunspeaker 5 decks

Card text

Starstorm

Instant

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature. Cycling {3}

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jonas De Ro

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.