Live Play Data

Abhorrent Oculus

· Creature — Eye · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

172

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

71%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 3% (1 / 31 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

172 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

172

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +17.8pp

Players who cast this card win 57% of the time (n=30) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=92).

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 +36.3pp; 95% confidence interval +17.8pp to +54.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances

3.6%

Library

32.1%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

14.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler 17 decks
2 Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer 11 decks
3 Sash and Waistcoat, Unmen 9 decks
4 Teval, the Balanced Scale 5 decks
5 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 4 decks
6 Vannifar, Evolved Enigma 4 decks
7 Octavia, Living Thesis 3 decks
8 The Mindskinner 3 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
10 Marina Vendrell 2 decks

Card text

Abhorrent Oculus

Creature — Eye

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile six cards from your graveyard. Flying At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

5 / 5

Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) · Mythic · Illustrated by Bryan Sola

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.