Live Play Data

Urza's Ruinous Blast

· Legendary Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1048

Decks Running

472

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=160

13%

58%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 17% (20 / 160 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

1048 brought · 433 players

Brought to game

1048

Ever drawn

263

Reached battlefield

160

Still on board at game end

≥ +8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=143) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=662).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=90).

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 +16.6pp; 95% confidence interval +8.4pp to +24.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

297 instances

6.4%

Library

6.1%

Battlefield

49.5%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jodah, the Unifier 63 decks
2 Commodore Guff 42 decks
3 Gandalf, Party Guest 42 decks
4 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 39 decks
5 Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man 26 decks
6 Dihada, Binder of Wills 22 decks
7 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 19 decks
8 Tam, the Possibility 18 decks
9 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 16 decks
10 Urza, Chief Artificer 11 decks

Card text

Urza's Ruinous Blast

Legendary Sorcery

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Exile all nonland permanents that aren't legendary.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.