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Urza's Ruinous Blast

· Legendary Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

455

Decks Running

228

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

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

Final zone distribution

104 instances

2.9%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

43.3%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jodah, the Unifier 41 decks
2 Commodore Guff 20 decks
3 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 18 decks
4 Gandalf, Party Guest 18 decks
5 Dihada, Binder of Wills 16 decks
6 Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man 16 decks
7 Kratos, Stoic Father 12 decks
8 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 11 decks
9 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 10 decks
10 Urza, Chief Artificer 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

455 brought · 210 players

Brought to game

455

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=40) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=258).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=42).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -4.6pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=46

72%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 7% (2 / 46 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

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.