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Starstorm

· Instant · Neon Dynasty Commander (NEC)

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Times Brought

598

Decks Running

312

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

Starstorm

Instant

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

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

Final zone distribution

127 instances

2.4%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

45.7%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 107 decks
2 The Swarmlord 69 decks
3 Magus Lucea Kane 15 decks
4 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 13 decks
5 Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge 9 decks
6 Sonic the Hedgehog 9 decks
7 Smaug the Impenetrable 8 decks
8 Daretti, Scrap Savant 7 decks
9 Kalamax, the Stormsire 7 decks
10 Firesong and Sunspeaker 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

598 brought · 285 players

Brought to game

598

Ever drawn

123

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.5pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=43) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=312).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (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 -3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -11.5pp to +4.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=54

59%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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.