Live Play Data

Starstorm

· Instant · Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

667

Decks Running

329

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=74

11%

58%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

667 brought · 312 players

Brought to game

667

Ever drawn

135

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.6pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=65) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=445).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=49).

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 -4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -13.6pp to +4.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

146 instances

2.7%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

57.5%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 99 decks
2 The Swarmlord 64 decks
3 Magus Lucea Kane 23 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 13 decks
5 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 11 decks
6 Kalamax, the Stormsire 9 decks
7 Sonic the Hedgehog 9 decks
8 Gavi, Nest Warden 6 decks
9 Daretti, Scrap Savant 5 decks
10 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 4 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.